> measure of text overlap (or likely text overlap). Has anyone written > or ported such a thing for Python?
Hm (talking to myself)... the link I gave above has some references, and one of those includes some python code. Seems not packaged up yet for plots, but may be close: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Map_generator#Placing_labels Anything better? c -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list