Hello,

I have been putting some initial effort on implementing a new Legend
class which has paddings in canvas unit.

A related post is

http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg08560.html

My current implementation has a same functionality as the old one (an
example figure attached), but I haven't implemented a new features
like multicolumn option yet.

Basic idea is to create a new version of the Legend class with a same
interface to the current one.
Eric's original suggestion was to use some optional kwarg to choose the version.
But I found this approach does not work well unless we also set the
meaningful default values in the rc file. For example, the current
"legend.axespad" in rcsetup.py is 0.02 which is in axes unit. But this
need to be ~10 (if given in points) or ~0.5 (if given in fraction of
the font size) in the new class.

One option I can think of is a work flow something like below.

   import matplotlib.legend
   matplotlib.legend.use_newclass(True) # this simply override the
rcParam with new default values and bind legend.Legend to the new
class.

   # do some stuff

   matplotlib.legend.use_newclass(False) # recover the original
rcParam and rebind legend.Legend back to the original class

So, how do others think?
Any idea or suggestion is welcomed.
Regards,

-JJ

<<attachment: legend_test.jpg>>

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