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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Delete vertical lines (or vertical rules) in plt.table? How to remove cell boundaries and shows table as scientific tables?","articleBody":"Is there any way to remove the vertical lines in a matplotlib table?\nOr even using `text.usetex=True` obtain a plot (using Arial for all texts and numbers) and append a table without vertical lines?\n\nMy code is this:\n\n```\nimport matplotlib.pyplot as plt\nimport seaborn as sns\n\nsns.set_style(\"ticks\")\nplt.rcParams.update({'xtick.labelsize' : 9,\n                    'ytick.labelsize' : 9,\n                    'mathtext.fontset' : 'stixsans',\n                    'mathtext.default': 'regular'\n                    })\n\nplt.subplots_adjust(left=0.17, right=0.96, top=0.97, bottom=0.09)\n\nfig = plt.figure(figsize=(5.5, 3.4))\nax = fig.add_subplot(111)\n\nax.plot([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6])\nax.set_xlabel('X Label')\nax.set_ylabel('Unit ('+u'μ'+r'velocity $\\cdot$ m$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$)',\n             size=10)\n\nl1 = [\"\",\"t0\", \"t1\", \"t2\", \"t3 \", \"t4\", \"t5\", \"t6\"]\nl2 = [\"DLI\", 35, 38, 10, 22, 25, 85, 22]\nt = ax.table(\n            colWidths=[0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1],\n            cellText = [l1, l2],\n            loc=\"upper center\",\n            colLoc=\"center\",\n            rowLoc=\"center\",\n            )\nplt.savefig('mpl_table.png')\nplt.show()\n```\n\nI tried to include some LaTeX stuff in another plot, which preserves Arial font, but does not render the table with horizontal lines [Table correct](http://imgur.com/4TckUyb). When I get the table as I want, the fonts can not be setted to Arial.\n\n[Here](https://gist.github.com/arnaldorusso/e542b04245560300d4f7) the codes show the plots in two steps. First generating the [first plot](http://imgur.com/J1A01h5) and after running in a new session the [second plot](http://imgur.com/4TckUyb).\n\nMy main problem is to maintain the Arial font (mandatory rules in the guide for authors) and tables should be without vertical rules, as stated on [first plot](http://imgur.com/J1A01h5).\n\nI have here three approachs and no one satisfy those recquirements (e.g. Arial font and table with no vertical lines)\n\nI could not figure it out. Any clues?\n\nCheers,\nArnaldo.\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/arnaldorusso","@type":"Person","name":"arnaldorusso"},"datePublished":"2015-01-28T00:53:25.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":8},"url":"https://github.com/4044/matplotlib/issues/4044"}