You're right: multi-column legends aren't implemented. There have been a number of points raised lately around the layout of legends (such as baseline alignment), that are starting to add up to a push for a (partial) rewrite of the legend code. Unfortunately, I don't think anyone has stepped up with time available to work on it. But I think this should go on the list of things to consider, assuming we can come up with a nice clean interface to present to the user. It would be helpful to collect use cases for that. For example, would an option "numcols" be enough (and the legend would just layout the text in that number of columns), or would you want/need more control over where individual elements are placed?
Of course, we're always looking for new developers, and if you have the motivation to work on this, I'm sure the various people on this list would be happy to help you work through it. Cheers, Mike Jose Gómez-Dans wrote: > Hi! > About a year ago, Jouni Seppänen indicated how to put a number of patches in > a > legend. So far so good. Now, it turns out that I do have quite a lot of > patches to throw into this legend, and it would be nice, rather than to have > a single column, to have the possibility to arrange these patches (and > associated labels) into columns. I have looked at the legend object, but > there is nothing suggesting that things can be shuffled around within the > legend box itself, some sort of "subplot()" for the legend patches. Am I > correct in assuming this doesn't exist (yet!). I am running 0.91.2, maybe > it's already been implemented, but I thought I'd ask! > > Cheers! > J > > > -- Michael Droettboom Science Software Branch Operations and Engineering Division Space Telescope Science Institute Operated by AURA for NASA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
