Actually, I got nice results using:
legend (title="blah blah"...)
Jae-Joon Lee wrote:
> The position of the legend is determined at drawing time, so it is a
> bit tricky to get it right.
> I recommend you to use "annotate" instead.
>
> ax = subplot(111)
> ax.plot([1,2,3], label="u=2,p=3")
> leg = ax.legend()
>
> ann = ax.annotate("Test 2", xy=(0.5, 1.), xycoords=leg.get_frame(),
> xytext=(0,10), textcoords="offset points",
> va="center", ha="left",
> )
>
> ann.set_zorder(leg.get_zorder()+0.1)
> # the zorder of ann must be higher than leg so that the position of
> leg is known when ann gets drawn
>
> See here for some more details.
>
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/annotations_guide.html#using-complex-
coordinate-with-annotation
>
> Regards,
>
> -JJ
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Neal Becker <ndbeck...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> My legend is going to have a series of entries that look like:
>>
>> u=2,p=3
>> u=1,p=4
>> ...
>>
>>
>> I want to add some (short) text that explains what u and p are.
>>
>> I'm thinking to get the coordinates of the legend box so I can then annotate?
>>
>> How would I get the coordinates of the legend box? Or is there some
>> better/easier way to do what I want?
>>
>>
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