On Mon, 7 Mar 2011 09:08:29 -0600 Benjamin Root <ben.r...@ou.edu> wrote:
> Matplotlib is designed to give you maximum control over the figure elements > while still maintaining sensible defaults. This is helpful in some cases, > and not so helpful in others. In your case of placing a legend outside an > axes, calculating the location can be a bit of a trial-and-error, but if the > number of elements in your legend is going to be fixed, once you find a good > value, you can just leave it that way in your script. The problem with trial-and-error is that I can clearly see a difference of the sub-pixel rendering of the legend's frame when a lot of subplots are present - hinting at a slight-but-nonzero difference between the axis and the legend. This bothers me at a sub-conscious level.. :) > Automatic determination of legend size is difficult because the size of the > text objects are not known until draw time. However, it is possible to > query your legend object for its bbox and then reposition your legend object > accordingly (but only after the initial draw). This is tricky, but do-able. I wonder how gnuplot implements its automatic layout, since manual placement is never necessary, even in multiplot outputs (for those who are not familiar with gnuplot: multiplot implements simple grid layouts with fully automatic positioning of the subplots). > By the way, another possible command you might want is called "figlegend", > which is a legend that is attached to the figure object rather than the axes > object. It is plotted outside the axes, and has to be given all the objects > to list, but it might be what you want. See this example: Thanks, I will look into it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What You Don't Know About Data Connectivity CAN Hurt You This paper provides an overview of data connectivity, details its effect on application quality, and explores various alternative solutions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/progress-d2d _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
