Update of the plotting and plotting configureation

Not sure it is working on Binder, though....

matplotlibrc

@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ font.family          : sans-serif
 # small, medium, large, x-large, xx-large, larger, or smaller
 font.size           : 12.0
 # font.serif          : Bitstream Vera Serif, New Century Schoolbook, Century Schoolbook L, Utopia, ITC Bookman, Bookman, Nimbus Roman No9 L, Times New Roman, Times, Palatino, Charter, serif
-font.sans-serif     : Helvetica
+font.sans-serif     : Roboto Condensed
 #font.cursive        : Apple Chancery, Textile, Zapf Chancery, Sand, cursive
 #font.fantasy        : Comic Sans MS, Chicago, Charcoal, Impact, Western, fantasy
 font.monospace      : Andale Mono, Nimbus Mono L, Courier New, Courier, Fixed, Terminal, monospace
@@ -281,8 +281,8 @@ legend.numpoints     : 1      # the number of points in the legend line
 # See http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/figure_api.html#matplotlib.figure.Figure
 figure.figsize   : 6, 6    # figure size in inches
 #figure.dpi       : 80      # figure dots per inch
-figure.facecolor : 0.85    # figure facecolor; 0.75 is scalar gray
-figure.edgecolor : 0.50   # figure edgecolor
+figure.facecolor : white    # figure facecolor; 0.75 is scalar gray
+figure.edgecolor : white   # figure edgecolor
 
 # The figure subplot parameters.  All dimensions are fraction of the
 # figure width or height
@@ -329,8 +329,8 @@ figure.subplot.hspace  : 0.5    # the amount of height reserved for white space
 # Eg, you may want a higher resolution, or to make the figure
 # background white
 #savefig.dpi       : 100      # figure dots per inch
-#savefig.facecolor : white    # figure facecolor when saving
-#savefig.edgecolor : white    # figure edgecolor when saving
+savefig.facecolor : white    # figure facecolor when saving
+savefig.edgecolor : white    # figure edgecolor when saving
 #savefig.extension : auto     # what extension to use for savefig('foo'), or 'auto'
 
 #cairo.format      : png      # png, ps, pdf, svg
@@ -395,4 +395,3 @@ keymap.save : s                     # saving current figure
 keymap.grid : g                     # switching on/off a grid in current axes
 keymap.yscale : l                   # toggle scaling of y-axes ('log'/'linear')
 keymap.xscale : L, k                # toggle scaling of x-axes ('log'/'linear')
-keymap.all_axes : a                 # enable all axes

plot_utils.py

@@ -24,14 +24,14 @@ def pretty_axes( ax ):
     ax.spines["right"].set_visible(False)              
     ax.spines["left"].set_visible(True)  
 
-    ax.get_xaxis().tick_bottom()  
-    ax.get_yaxis().tick_left()  
+    ax.xaxis.set_ticks_position('bottom')
+    ax.yaxis.set_ticks_position('left')
     loc = plt.MaxNLocator( 6 )
     ax.yaxis.set_major_locator( loc )
 
 
-    ax.tick_params(axis="both", which="both", bottom="off", top="off",  
-            labelbottom="on", left="off", right="off", labelleft="on")  
+    # ax.tick_params(axis="both", which="both", bottom="off", top="off",  
+    #         labelbottom="on", left="off", right="off", labelleft="on")  
 
 def plot_dalec ( outputs ):
     pools = [r'$NEE$', r'$GPP$',  '$Ra$', '$Rh_1 + Rh_2$', '$A_f$','$A_r$', \