On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:08 AM, hettling <hettl...@few.vu.nl> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm struggling with the following problem plotting my data:
>
> I have a figure with two panels next to each other, which I want to
> label 'A' and 'B'. I want to left-justify my panel labels, but not to
> the box that contains the plot, but to the y-axis label. I played around
> with 'text()' and 'title()', but did not find a good solution except for
> giving the coordinates manually to 'text()'. This would be very
> inconvenient though, because I have many different plots on different
> scales.
> Here is what I tried:
>
> ###Code
> import scipy
> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>
> fig = plt.figure()
> ax = fig.add_subplot(121)
> plt.plot(scipy.sin(scipy.arange(1,100, 0.001)))
> plt.xlabel('xlabel')
> plt.ylabel("ylabel")
> plt.text(0,1,"A", fontsize=14, transform=ax.transAxes)
>
> ax = fig.add_subplot(122)
> plt.plot(scipy.cos(scipy.arange(1,100, 0.001)))
> plt.text(0,1,"B", fontsize=14, transform=ax.transAxes)
> plt.xlabel('xlabel')
> ###End Code
>
> So the texts 'A' and 'B' should be a little bit higher and more to the
> left. The 'A' I want to align with the y-axis label of the left plot,
> the 'B' with the values of the y-axis of the right plot.I haven't thought through the solution completely, but my intuition says that this might be helpful: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/anchored_artists.html http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/mpl_toolkits/axes_grid/users/overview.html#anchoredartists These examples show ways of anchoring artists (like Text) to certain locations. It's probably your best bet for getting what you want. Ryan -- Ryan May Graduate Research Assistant School of Meteorology University of Oklahoma ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
