added a handler for a spinespec attribute so the user can specify wha…

…t spines to show in the layout document

figurefirst/mpl_functions.py

@@ -112,7 +112,12 @@ def kill_all_spines(layout):
 
 def kill_all_labels(layout):
     [kill_labels(ax) for ax in layout.axes.values()]
-
+
+def set_spines(layout):
+    for ax in layout.axes.values():
+        if 'spinespec' in ax.__dict__:
+            adjust_spines(ax,ax.spinespec.split(','))
+
 def set_fontsize(fig,fontsize):
     """
     For each text object of a figure fig, set the font size to fontsize
@@ -123,6 +128,8 @@ def match(artist):
     for textobj in fig.findobj(match=match):
         textobj.set_fontsize(fontsize)
 
+
+
 def fix_mpl_svg(file_path, pattern='miterlimit:100000;', subst='miterlimit:1;'):
     """used to fix problematic outputs from the matplotlib svg
     generator, for example matplotlib creates exceptionaly large meterlimis"""

figurefirst/svg_to_axes.py

@@ -633,10 +633,12 @@ def traverse_axes(node,grouptree):
                         for mpl_methods_element in mpl_methods_elements:
                             [grouptree[ax.name].mplmethods.update({key:value}) for key,value in mpl_methods_element.attributes.items()]
                         projection = node.getElementsByTagName('figurefirst:projection')
-                        if child.hasAttribute('figurefirst:projection'):#len(projection) == 0:
+                        if child.hasAttribute('figurefirst:projection'):
                             grouptree[ax.name].projection = child.getAttribute('figurefirst:projection')
                         else:
                             grouptree[ax.name].projection = 'rectilinear'
+                        if child.hasAttribute('figurefirst:spinespec'):
+                            grouptree[ax.name].spinespec = child.getAttribute('figurefirst:spinespec')
                     if child.tagName in ['figurefirst:figure']:
                         if child.hasAttribute('figurefirst:template'):
                             fig = FFTemplateTarget(child)