Re: [Matplotlib-users] Drawing a circle around a letter

2010-12-28 Thread Paul Ivanov
Nathann Cohen, on 2010-12-26 22:27, wrote: Hello everybody !!! When adding some text to a plot, is there a way to know the actual size of the letters as they appear, in such a way that I could, for instance, draw a circle around a 'A', so that the A perfectly fits inside (the smallest

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Drawing a circle around a letter

2010-12-28 Thread Jae-Joon Lee
With bbox parameter, you can draw a box (or a path) around a text. http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/annotations_guide.html#annotating-with-text-with-box There a several box styles, but unfortunately no circle. However, you can create a custom box style.