From 4b60b05f757b274cf2a037c5ca8f1fe14dc05bbe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Schwabeneder <daniel.schwabeneder@openmailbox.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 13:42:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] update grid defaults and modify grid example

---
 src/args.jl     | 8 ++++----
 src/examples.jl | 8 ++++----
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/args.jl b/src/args.jl
index 01cafb51..e68e6be6 100644
--- a/src/args.jl
+++ b/src/args.jl
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ function hasgrid(arg::Symbol, letter)
     if arg in _allGridSyms
         arg in (:all, :both, :on) || contains(string(arg), string(letter))
     else
-        warn("Unknown grid argument $arg; $letter\grid was set to `true` instead")
+        warn("Unknown grid argument $arg; $letter\grid was set to `true` instead.")
         true
     end
 end
@@ -303,9 +303,9 @@ const _axis_defaults = KW(
     :mirror => false,
     :grid                     => true,
     :foreground_color_grid    => :match,            # grid color
-    :gridalpha                => 0.3,
-    :gridstyle                => :dot,
-    :gridlinewidth                => 1,
+    :gridalpha                => 0.1,
+    :gridstyle                => :solid,
+    :gridlinewidth            => 0.5,
 )
 
 const _suppress_warnings = Set{Symbol}([
diff --git a/src/examples.jl b/src/examples.jl
index 640dde92..87ae1ca4 100644
--- a/src/examples.jl
+++ b/src/examples.jl
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ PlotExample("Animation with subplots",
 ),
 
 PlotExample("Spy",
-    "For a matrix `mat` with unique nonzeros `spy(mat)` returns a colorless plot. If `mat` has various different nonzero values, a colorbar is added. The colorbar can be disabled with `legend = nothing`. As always, the marker shape and size can be changed with `spy(mat, markersize = 3, markershape = :star)`",
+    "For a matrix `mat` with unique nonzeros `spy(mat)` returns a colorless plot. If `mat` has various different nonzero values, a colorbar is added. The colorbar can be disabled with `legend = nothing`. As always, the marker shape and size can be changed with `spy(mat, markersize = 3, markershape = :star)`.",
     [:(begin
     a = spdiagm((ones(50), ones(49), ones(49), ones(40), ones(40)),(0, 1, -1, 10, -10))
     b = spdiagm((1:50, 1:49, 1:49, 1:40, 1:40),(0, 1, -1, 10, -10))
@@ -330,13 +330,13 @@ PlotExample("Spy",
 ),
 
 PlotExample("Magic grid argument",
-    "The grid lines can be modified individually for each axis with the magic grid argument",
+    "The grid lines can be modified individually for each axis with the magic grid argument.",
     [:(begin
     x = rand(10)
     p1 = plot(x, title = "Default looks")
-    p2 = plot(x, grid = (:y, :olivedrab, :solid, 0.5), title = "Modified y grid")
+    p2 = plot(x, grid = (:y, :olivedrab, :dot, 1, 0.9), title = "Modified y grid")
     p3 = plot(deepcopy(p2), title = "Add x grid")
-    xgrid!(p3, :on, :cadetblue, 2, :dashdot)
+    xgrid!(p3, :on, :cadetblue, 2, :dashdot, 0.4)
     plot(p1, p2, p3, layout = (1, 3), label = "", fillrange = 0, fillalpha = 0.3)
     end)]
 ),