Fix formatting in docstring for dates

matplotlib · Sep 16, 2014 · 5b2ff4f · 5b2ff4f
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diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/dates.py b/lib/matplotlib/dates.py
@@ -520,22 +520,22 @@ class AutoDateFormatter(ticker.Formatter):
     >>> formatter = AutoDateFormatter()
     >>> formatter.scaled[1/(24.*60.)] = '%M:%S' # only show min and sec
 
-    Custom `FunctionFormatter`s can also be used. The following example shows
+    A Custom :class:`~matplotlib.ticker.FuncFormatter` can also be used. The following example shows
     how to use a custom format function to strip trailing zeros from decimal
     seconds and adds the date to the first ticklabel::
 
-    >>> def my_format_function(x, pos=None):
-    ...     x = matplotlib.dates.num2date(x)
-    ...     if pos == 0:
-    ...         fmt = '%D %H:%M:%S.%f'
-    ...     else:
-    ...         fmt = '%H:%M:%S.%f'
-    ...     label = x.strftime(fmt)
-    ...     label = label.rstrip("0")
-    ...     label = label.rstrip(".")
-    ...     return label
-    >>> from matplotlib.ticker import FuncFormatter
-    >>> formatter.scaled[1/(24.*60.)] = FuncFormatter(my_format_function)
+        >>> def my_format_function(x, pos=None):
+        ...     x = matplotlib.dates.num2date(x)
+        ...     if pos == 0:
+        ...         fmt = '%D %H:%M:%S.%f'
+        ...     else:
+        ...         fmt = '%H:%M:%S.%f'
+        ...     label = x.strftime(fmt)
+        ...     label = label.rstrip("0")
+        ...     label = label.rstrip(".")
+        ...     return label
+        >>> from matplotlib.ticker import FuncFormatter
+        >>> formatter.scaled[1/(24.*60.)] = FuncFormatter(my_format_function)
     """
 
     # This can be improved by providing some user-level direction on