Jae-Joon Lee wrote: >> Done, except that it just raises a warning, and still works with the old >> kwarg. The new kwarg is "borderpad"; it is used if pad==0, which is the new >> rc default. I set the default borderpad=0.5. >> >> There is still too much other positioning in legend that is based on axes >> units. I briefly tried to start changing others, again with additional >> kwargs, and things quickly fell apart. Legend needs considerable reworking >> to take full advantage of the transforms framework (and maybe other mpl >> improvements since the original legend) and to put all positioning kwargs >> and code in sensible units. It is amazing that the present code works as >> well as it does. >> >> The way to make a transition may be via a separate version for a while. >> There could be a single interface, with a kwarg to choose the version. >> > > Thanks Eric. > > I would like to help reworking on the legend class. > I once tried to incorporate the FancyBox into the legend but the > result is not satisfactory because the legend bounding box is defined > as axes units in the current implementation (see the attached > screenshot). And I guess it would be better do things in the display > coordinate. > > Also, in the current implementation, the vertical spacing between each > legend varies according to the height of the legend text. For example, > in the attached screenshot, the spacings between "ac", "ag", "lg" are > all different and this is because their text heights are different. I > think it is better if we have a fixed spacing, or have a minimum > spacing as the text height of "lg". And use the baseline-alignment if > possible.
Jae-Joon, It would be great if you would take this on. I agree about the spacing. I suspect there are good opportunities for factoring out parts of the problem in such a way that they can be used more flexibly in legend, and may turn out to be useful elsewhere. An ability to nicely format plot elements (line segments, etc.) with text into a block would facilitate satisfying another request that has come up: a legend with more than one column, or a legend that is entirely horizontal. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
