Salomon: Great! Glad it was useful.

Georg: Interesting. Glad you got it working.

Ray


On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 5:34 AM, Georg Walther <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi Ray,
>
>
> thank you so much for your answer and code!
>
> While what you posted worked for me in plain Python, the legend was
> still clipped in my IPython Notebook.
>
> I noticed this issue on Github:
>
> https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/2210
>
> and can confirm that upgrading my Matplotlib from version 1.0.1 to 1.2.1
> resolved my issue with the clipped legend and your code works as expected.
>
>
> Georg
>
>
> On 06/12/2013 08:49 PM, Raymond Smith wrote:
> > Hi Georg,
> >
> > I did this by following Joe Kington's answer at
> >
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4700614/how-to-put-the-legend-out-of-the-plot
> > and also taking a quick glance at the matplotlib1DViewer.py code in fipy
> > (to figure out how to reference the axes). Here's example fipy-based
> > script with the legend off to the right: http://pastebin.com/vD2hF4WY
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Ray
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Georg Walther <[email protected]
> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi,
> >
> >
> >     I have searched the mailing list for the term 'legend' and have not
> yet
> >     found the answer to my question.
> >
> >     I run FiPy 3.0 and for 1D plots would like to place the legend
> outside
> >     the plotting area so as not to obstruct any lines.
> >
> >     My FiPy seems to be set up to interface with Matplotlib.
> >
> >     When calling this:
> >
> >     fp.Viewer(vars=(variable_1, variable_2),
> >                            datamin=-.1, datamax=1.1)
> >
> >     the legend usually ends up obstructing lines in my graph.
> >
> >     I am aware of the legend='right', etc. options but all of these will
> >     place the legend inside the axes.
> >
> >
> >     I can call this:
> >
> >     fp.Viewer(vars=(active, inactive, heterodimer),
> >                            datamin=-.1, datamax=1.1, legend=((1.0, 0.5)))
> >
> >     to place the legend outside the axes but this cuts off the legend as
> the
> >     resultant figure is not resized to show both the plot and the legend.
> >
> >
> >     Thank you for a generally fantastic package!
> >
> >
> >     Georg
> >
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