update readme

README.md

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ or
 ```bash
 git clone
 cd smplotlib
-pip install -e .
+pip install -e . --user
 ```
 
 ## Usage
@@ -23,6 +23,11 @@ Then just use `matplotlib.pyplot` as usual. For a quick start, you can use `smpl
 
 ![example](two_phase.png)
 
+### More advanced usage
+You can use the function ``smplotlib.set_style(fontweight='normal', usetex=False, fontsize=15, figsize=(6, 6), dpi=120)`` to customize the global seetings including font weight, font size, default figure size and resolution, and whether using LaTeX for math. The default font weight is ``'normal'``, and the default setting for LaTeX is ``False``. You can specify font weight as ``'light'`` or ``'heavy'``. Current support for LaTeX is not quite satisfying, so it is recommended to set ``usetex=False``.
+
+You can turn off the black edgecolor of scatter plots by ``smplotlib.set_style(edgecolor='face')``. This is useful when you want to plot a large number of points.
+
 ## Hershey font
 SuperMongo uses [Hershey fonts](https://www.astro.princeton.edu/~rhl/sm/sm.html#TOC73). The [``ttf`` files](https://github.com/yangcht/Hershey_font_TTF) are from a compilation by astronomer [`yangcht`](https://github.com/yangcht). Thanks for the great work! 
 

pyproject.toml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "smplotlib"
-version = "0.0.8"
+version = "0.0.9"
 authors = [
   { name="Jiaxuan Li", email="jiaxuanl@princeton.edu" },
 ]

src/smplotlib/__init__.py

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 # Load style
 plt.style.use(os.path.join(pkg_path, 'smplot.mplstyle'))
 
-def set_style(usetex=False, fontsize=15, fontweight='normal', figsize=(6, 6), dpi=120):
+def set_style(usetex=False, fontsize=15, fontweight='normal', figsize=(6, 6), dpi=120, edgecolor='black'):
     '''
     Set matplotlib parameters for SuperMongo style.
     
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ def set_style(usetex=False, fontsize=15, fontweight='normal', figsize=(6, 6), dp
         Figure size. Default is (6, 6).
     dpi : int, optional.
         Dots per inch. Default is 100.
+    edgecolor : str, optional.
+        Edge color. Default is 'black'. If you don't like the black edge, you can set it to 'face'.
     '''
     rcParams.update({'font.size': fontsize,
                      'figure.figsize': "{0}, {1}".format(figsize[0], figsize[1]),
@@ -57,7 +59,15 @@ def set_style(usetex=False, fontsize=15, fontweight='normal', figsize=(6, 6), dp
         rcParams.update({
             "font.weight": "normal",
             "axes.labelweight": "normal",
-            "mathtext.fontset": "custom"
+            "mathtext.fontset": "custom",
+            "mathtext.bf": "AVHershey Complex:medium",
+            "mathtext.cal": "AVHershey Complex:medium",
+            "mathtext.it": "AVHershey Complex:italic",
+            "mathtext.rm": "AVHershey Complex:medium",
+            "mathtext.sf": "AVHershey Duplex:medium",
+            "mathtext.tt": "AVHershey Complex:medium",
+            "mathtext.fallback": "cm",
+            "mathtext.default": 'it'
         })
 
     elif fontweight == 'light':
@@ -93,11 +103,6 @@ def set_style(usetex=False, fontsize=15, fontweight='normal', figsize=(6, 6), dp
     elif fontweight == 'heavy':
         rcParams.update({
             "axes.linewidth": 0.7,
-            "xtick.major.width": 0.6,
-            "xtick.minor.width": 0.5,
-            "ytick.major.width": 0.6,
-            "ytick.minor.width": 0.5,
-            "font.family":  "AVHershey Complex",
             "font.weight": "heavy",
             "axes.labelweight": "heavy",
             "mathtext.fontset": "custom",
@@ -122,6 +127,7 @@ def set_style(usetex=False, fontsize=15, fontweight='normal', figsize=(6, 6), dp
                 ])
             })
 
+    rcParams.update({'scatter.edgecolors': edgecolor})
 smplotlib.set_style()
 
 from .demo import demo_plot