Get a matplotlib plot showing the DOS.

        Args:
            xlim: Specifies the x-axis limits. Set to None for automatic
                determination.
            ylim: Specifies the y-axis limits.

def get_plot(self, xlim=None, ylim=None):
        """
        Get a matplotlib plot showing the DOS.

        Args:
            xlim: Specifies the x-axis limits. Set to None for automatic
                determination.
            ylim: Specifies the y-axis limits.
        """

        ncolors = max(3, len(self._doses))
        ncolors = min(9, ncolors)

        import palettable

        colors = palettable.colorbrewer.qualitative.Set1_9.mpl_colors

        y = None
        alldensities = []
        allenergies = []
        plt = pretty_plot(12, 8)

        # Note that this complicated processing of energies is to allow for
        # stacked plots in matplotlib.
        for key, dos in self._doses.items():
            energies = dos['energies']
            densities = dos['densities']
            if not y:
                y = {Spin.up: np.zeros(energies.shape),
                     Spin.down: np.zeros(energies.shape)}
            newdens = {}
            for spin in [Spin.up, Spin.down]:
                if spin in densities:
                    if self.stack:
                        y[spin] += densities[spin]
                        newdens[spin] = y[spin].copy()
                    else:
                        newdens[spin] = densities[spin]
            allenergies.append(energies)
            alldensities.append(newdens)

        keys = list(self._doses.keys())
        keys.reverse()
        alldensities.reverse()
        allenergies.reverse()
        allpts = []
        for i, key in enumerate(keys):
            x = []
            y = []
            for spin in [Spin.up, Spin.down]:
                if spin in alldensities[i]:
                    densities = list(int(spin) * alldensities[i][spin])
                    energies = list(allenergies[i])
                    if spin == Spin.down:
                        energies.reverse()
                        densities.reverse()
                    x.extend(energies)
                    y.extend(densities)
            allpts.extend(list(zip(x, y)))
            if self.stack:
                plt.fill(x, y, color=colors[i % ncolors],
                         label=str(key))
            else:
                plt.plot(x, y, color=colors[i % ncolors],
                         label=str(key), linewidth=3)
            if not self.zero_at_efermi:
                ylim = plt.ylim()
                plt.plot([self._doses[key]['efermi'],
                          self._doses[key]['efermi']], ylim,
                         color=colors[i % ncolors],
                         linestyle='--', linewidth=2)

        if xlim:
            plt.xlim(xlim)
        if ylim:
            plt.ylim(ylim)
        else:
            xlim = plt.xlim()
            relevanty = [p[1] for p in allpts
                         if xlim[0] < p[0] < xlim[1]]
            plt.ylim((min(relevanty), max(relevanty)))

        if self.zero_at_efermi:
            ylim = plt.ylim()
            plt.plot([0, 0], ylim, 'k--', linewidth=2)

        plt.xlabel('Energies (eV)')
        plt.ylabel('Density of states')

        plt.legend()
        leg = plt.gca().get_legend()
        ltext = leg.get_texts()  # all the text.Text instance in the legend
        plt.setp(ltext, fontsize=30)
        plt.tight_layout()
        return plt