If I have to manually add room, I guess I might as well just keep using this, which I had used with version 1.1:
fig.subplots_adjust(bottom=0.2) Jae-Joon Lee wrote: > I'm afraid that, unfortunately, it won't be fixed soon (if ever, as > far as I can tell). > What "tight_layout" does is to adjust the *subplot parameters* of the > figure so that the "subplots" fit in. Artists created with figtext > command is not affected by the subplot parameters, i.e. there is not > much thing we can do for these artists within the current > implementation. It would be better if some warning is printed in such > case (there are lots of cases that tight_layout will fail), but this > is not currently done. > > Depending on your need, you may leave out some area for figtext when > you call "tight_layout". This is only supported for gridspec though. > > import matplotlib.pyplot as plt > import matplotlib.gridspec as gridspec > > fig = plt.figure() > > gs1 = gridspec.GridSpec(2, 2) > ax_list = [fig.add_subplot(ss) for ss in gs1] > > fig.text (02, 0, "test", horizontalalignment='left', > verticalalignment='bottom', size=5) > fig.text (0.5, 1, "01", horizontalalignment='left', > verticalalignment='top', size='x-small') > > gs1.tight_layout(fig, rect=[0, 0.03, 1, 0.97]) # adjust rect parameter > to make some room for figtext. > > > Regards, > > -JJ > > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Neal Becker <ndbeck...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I just tried 1.1.1rc to see if it fixed the tight_layout for figtext. >> >> I have a semilogy plot, and add some lines of text on the bottom (and top): >> >> plt.figtext (0, 0, res['carriers'].values, horizontalalignment='left', >> verticalalignment='bottom', size=5) >> plt.figtext (0.5, 1, self.pageno, horizontalalignment='left', >> verticalalignment='top', size='x-small') >> ##plt.tight_layout(pad=1.0) >> plt.tight_layout() >> >> The text on the bottom is overprinting the x axis - the same as happened >> with the previous release. >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> This SF email is sponsosred by: >> Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure >> _______________________________________________ >> Matplotlib-devel mailing list >> Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF email is sponsosred by: > Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-devel mailing list > Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
