[Matplotlib-users] Lines and columns in legends

2009-04-12 Thread Vasileios Kontorinis
Jae-Joon hi, I am a newbie with matplolib. I need a horizontal legend because my figures are pretty wide and I need to automate the process of generating it. Since matplotlib does not support horizontal legends I am hacking around it. I modified your example below. So the following works:

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Lines and columns in legends

2009-04-12 Thread Jae-Joon Lee
The recent version of the mpl now supports multi-column legend. http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/legend_demo3.html Thus, it would be great if you to try the new version, and if your problem is still not solved, please report it again. Regards, -JJ On Sun, Apr 12,

[Matplotlib-users] Lines and columns in legends

2008-10-09 Thread José Alexandre Nalon
Hello, Is there an easy way to make a legend with multiple lines and columns? I need 8 plots in the same figure, and the legend takes a lot of space. I believe that if I could orient the legend in multiple lines and columns (say, 2 lines with four columns each), I could save a lot of space,

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Lines and columns in legends

2008-10-09 Thread Jae-Joon Lee
The current legend class does not support multiple columns. Eric Wertman once mentioned in this list that he would work on this feature, but I don't know the current status. A (partial) rewrite of the legend class which I plan to support multicolumns is in my TODO list but I haven't started it

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Lines and columns in legends

2008-10-09 Thread José Alexandre Nalon
Hello, Em Thursday 09 October 2008 13:46:52 Jae-Joon Lee escreveu: Meanwhile, you may try to make multiple legends as a posible workarounds. Thanks for your answer. That did the trick, and the figure looks more or less as I wanted. It would look exactly as I wanted if I could remove the border