I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to use a table as a legend of
sorts, as I have a very busy graph I'm trying to describe.

Basically:
- I'm visualizing data from a series of similar but not-quite-identical
simulations
- I'd like to have the simulation parameters displayed in a table format,
with an example line from the graph next to each row

So, I might have rows that look like:
"Line", "Alpha", "Beta"...
"-----" , "0.125",  "2.0"....
"- - -",  "0.120",  "2.0"....

The problem is I can't figure out how to include a line "sample" like what's
included with the legend in a table, and I can't figure out how to make
legend entries that don't have any lines.  I suspect that I could make a
dummy white plot, and use that for my data entries in a legend and make a
legend-table hybrid that way.  However, I think using a table would be
cleaner and look nicer.

Does anyone have any ideas as to how to get this working?

While I'm posting, another quick question -- my text output looks really
shoddy, even at high DPIs.  It looks like somebody took a screenshot of a
tiny font and scaled it up with a linear filter.  I have freetype installed,
and the matplotlib build script outputs the following, if it's helpful:

BUILDING MATPLOTLIB
            matplotlib: 0.99.1.1
                python: 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Apr  4 2009, 17:56:17)  [GCC
                        4.3.3]
              platform: linux2

REQUIRED DEPENDENCIES
                 numpy: 1.2.1
             freetype2: 9.20.3

OPTIONAL BACKEND DEPENDENCIES
                libpng: 1.2.27
               Tkinter: Tkinter: 67737, Tk: 8.5, Tcl: 8.5
              wxPython: 2.8.9.1
                        * WxAgg extension not required for wxPython >= 2.8
                  Gtk+: gtk+: 2.16.1, glib: 2.20.1, pygtk: 2.14.1,
                        pygobject: 2.16.1
       Mac OS X native: no
                    Qt: no
                   Qt4: no
                 Cairo: 1.4.12

OPTIONAL DATE/TIMEZONE DEPENDENCIES
              datetime: present, version unknown
              dateutil: 1.4.1
                  pytz: 2008h

OPTIONAL USETEX DEPENDENCIES
                dvipng: 1.11
           ghostscript: 8.64
                 latex: 3.141592
               pdftops: 0.10.5

Thank you in advance for any advice!

-Ashley
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