PyChart Reference Manual

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### Tick marks

Tick marks are used in conjunction with line plots (see line_plot) to show where sample points are. Tick marks derive from a single base class, `tick_mark.Base`:

XXX %%tick_mark.Base

fill_style <class 'pychart.fill_style.T'> | Attribute

Default: fill_style.white. The fill style.

line_style <class 'pychart.line_style.T'> | Attribute

Default: line_style.black. The line style of the tick mark.

size number | Attribute

Default: 5. Size of the tick mark.

Several types of tick marks are offered by PyChart as subclasses of `tick_mark.Base`. They include: tick_mark.Circle, tick_mark.Square, tick_mark.Triangle, tick_mark.DownTriangle, tick_mark.X, tick_mark.Plus, tick_mark.Diamond, tick_mark.Star, tick_mark.Null. Specific instance of these classes are also defined for your convenience. Below is the list of such standard tick marks. They are referred to by as "`tick_mark.`name", where name is the labels below them.