[I accidentally sent this message privately to the sender before. . . why
doesn't this list set the Reply-To header to the list?]
Darren Dale wrote:
>> On Wednesday 16 August 2006 02:26, Brendan Barnwell wrote:
>
>>>> Hi, I'm trying to get matplotlib to give me a plot where the legend is
>>>> outside the axes.
>>>>
>>>> I saw several posts about this in the mailing list archives, but none of
>>>> them really seem to provide workable solutions.
>
>>
>> Try passing the loc kwarg to legend(). Like legend([...], loc=(1.01, 0.25))
Thanks, that works after a fashion. Again, though, I can't figure out a
programmatic way to decide what values to use there. I would like to be able to
calculate the size of the window, calculate the size of the legend, and then set
the size of the axes so that everything fits nicely.
Why is it that the sizes and positions for axes and legends are
specified in
totally different units (proportional vs. pixel)? Is there a way to say "I want
the axes to take up 80% of the window and the legend to take up the remaining
20%"? Is there a way to change the format of the legend, so that it is, for
example, in two columns instead of one? Or to get the legend text to word wrap
within a fixed-width box instead of just causing the legend box to grow without
bound? What I'm trying to do is figure out how to programmatically arrange the
various elements in the plot window so that they look nice.
I guess the simplest question I can ask is: how can I getthe width of
the
legend and the width of the axes in comparable units? If I could at least get
that, I could manually calculate how big the axes should be.
>>>> Or, alternatively, is there some easier way to get legends to NEVER
>>>> overlap lines?
>
>>
>> try legend([...], loc='best')
That doesn't work, because 'best' apparently isn't implemented for
figure
legends, and if I use an axes legend then it sometimes overlaps the lines.
-- --Brendan Barnwell "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead,
where
there is no path, and leave a trail." --author unknown
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