John Hunter wrote: > On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Ryan May <rma...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> the marker. It would be great if one could specify the text offsets in >>> units of the font size rather than in units of map distance. >> You can do it, it just takes a bit of knowledge about how different >> transformations are used under the hood: > > See also, the transforms tutorial: > > http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/transforms_tutorial.html > > Offset transformations are discussed at: > > > http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/transforms_tutorial.html#using-offset-transforms-to-create-a-shadow-effect > > though in a different context, that of creating shadow effects. The > transformation logic is the same as in this case, though.
The case of wanting to offset text by an amount measured ideally in units of font size, or, failing that, in display units, is so common that it cries out for an easy-to-use syntax. e.g., text(x, y, "Honolulu", offset = (1, 1), offset_units='ex') I think that allowing display units would be easy to implement (as indicated by Ryan's example), but font or physical units would be much trickier because they would involve draw-time determinations. Starting by allowing only display units still would be much better than the present situation. Collections already have something like this, with their offset and offset_transform kwargs, but they are still a little more difficult to use than what I am thinking of for text. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
