and also, how can I make only one point for the scatter legend? if I use
leg=ax1.legend(loc='upper left', numpoints=1) all the lines will disapper too... wiswit wrote: > > Dear all, > > I've made a plot (as attached). The problem is the frame of the legeng is > too big that It covers some part of the lines in the figure. > I used a 'x-samll' font size in the legend text, but the problem is that > the space between the lines of different texts is too big that the > whole frame of the legend becomes big. > > another question is, the font size of legend text can only be set as > 'xx-small' | 'x-small' | 'small' | 'medium' | 'large' | 'x-large' | > 'xx-large' , but not specific numbers? > > Any ideas about this will be very much appreciated. > > > ############################################### the script: > fig1=plt.figure() > fig1.text(0.5,0.04,'Years since last > burn',ha='center',rotation='horizontal') > fig1.text(0.05,0.45,'Total biomass(gC > m-2)',va='center',rotation='vertical') > ax1=fig1.add_subplot(111) > for i in range(7): > > ax1.plot(np.arange(1,len(ns2['TOTAL_M'][i])+1),ns2['TOTAL_M'][i],g.pline[i],label=bsite.NSlist[i]) > ax1.plot(data[:,0],data[:,13],'k.',markersize=10,label='Goulden et > al.,2011') > ax1.plot(wdata[:,0][0:7],wdata[:,6][0:7],'r.',markersize=10,label='Wang et > al.,2003 Dry') > ax1.plot(wdata[:,0][7:14],wdata[:,6][7:14],'g.',markersize=10,label='Wang > et al.,2003 Wet') > leg=ax1.legend(loc='upper left') > ltext = leg.get_texts() > llines = leg.get_lines() > frame = leg.get_frame() > plt.setp(ltext, fontsize='x-small') > > > Best wishes, > > Chao > http://old.nabble.com/file/p31918421/CA-NS_BiomassCarbon_modelVSob.png > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/How-to-change-the-frame-size-of-legend--tp31918421p31918424.html Sent from the matplotlib - users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense.. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c1 _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users