Revision: 8189
http://matplotlib.svn.sourceforge.net/matplotlib/?rev=8189&view=rev
Author: leejjoon
Date: 2010-03-12 23:23:49 +0000 (Fri, 12 Mar 2010)
Log Message:
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improve legend doc. Thanks to Alan Issac
Modified Paths:
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trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/axes.py
trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/legend.py
Modified: trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/axes.py
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--- trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/axes.py 2010-03-12 19:27:47 UTC (rev
8188)
+++ trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/axes.py 2010-03-12 23:23:49 UTC (rev
8189)
@@ -3964,9 +3964,11 @@
*title* : string
the legend title
- Padding and spacing between various elements use following keywords
- parameters. The dimensions of these values are given as a fraction
- of the fontsize. Values from rcParams will be used if None.
+ Padding and spacing between various elements use following
+ keywords parameters. These values are measure in font-size
+ units. E.g., a fontsize of 10 points and a handlelength=5
+ implies a handlelength of 50 points. Values from rcParams
+ will be used if None.
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==================================================================
Keyword Description
Modified: trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/legend.py
===================================================================
--- trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/legend.py 2010-03-12 19:27:47 UTC (rev
8188)
+++ trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/legend.py 2010-03-12 23:23:49 UTC (rev
8189)
@@ -166,9 +166,11 @@
bbox_transform the transform for the bbox. transAxes if None.
================
==================================================================
-The dimensions of pad and spacing are given as a fraction of the
-_fontsize. Values from rcParams will be used if None.
+The pad and spacing parameters are measure in font-size units. E.g.,
+a fontsize of 10 points and a handlelength=5 implies a handlelength of
+50 points. Values from rcParams will be used if None.
+
Users can specify any arbitrary location for the legend using the
*bbox_to_anchor* keyword argument. bbox_to_anchor can be an instance
of BboxBase(or its derivatives) or a tuple of 2 or 4 floats.
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