Clarify how to resize a visualization / customize

[kanitw]

This page is so hard to read.

Plus, there should be another tutorial that focus on customizing Vega-Lite plot for presentation

[peller]

@kanitw I've been scratching my head over this for the last few days and stumbled on this issue. Looking for a way to set the height/width of a single plot, like spec.width/spec.height on vega. Does it exist?

[kanitw]

@peller Currently you have to rely on config.cell.width and config.cell.height if quantitative scales on x and y axis respectively. For ordinal scale, currently you have to adjust bandWidth to adjust the size of the visualization.

We plan to add support fitting ordinal scale to a fix width/height (#194)
and top-level width and height (#1421) in the new few weeks.

Hope this helps!

[peller]

thanks, @kanitw! config.cell was not working for me for a single plot. Will wait for #1421. Will top level width/height settings include padding and label areas as well? Would be great if the width/height accessors on the view object could also be used.

[kanitw]

Can you provide an example spec where config.cell is not working? That seems important for us to fix too. Thank you!

[peller]

Taking a closer look, it appears to be user error. There was an ordinal scale involved, also no accounting for padding/labels, so not useful to me regardless.

[kanitw]

Done in #1214, pending final docs revision.