On Feb 5, 2008 2:17 PM, chombee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Could anyone advise me or give me an example of how to prevent a legend
> from obscuring a plot, or how I could do this better:
>
> http://www.23hq.com/seanh/photo/2862125/view-large
>
> I tried moving the legend out of the way using (x,y) coords but if I
> move it out of the axes viewport it also moves out of the figure, and it
> looks silly anyway. I also tried increasing the limits of the axes
> beyond those of the data, but that looked silly too. And I tried to
> change the font size of the legend but couldn't get it to work.

You could use custom axes (rather than subplots) and a figlegend, eg

http://matplotlib.sf.net/examples/figlegend_demo.py

JDH

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