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[Matplotlib-users] legend frame and font size.

[Cory D. <cd...@st...>]

Hi All,

Can anyone tell me how to change the size of the legend produced by
matlab.legend independently of my axis tick labels?

lh=legend(['a','b','c'],loc=4,fontsize=8)

doesn't work and there seems to be nothing in the lh object that would
help.

Cheers,
Cory

Re: [Matplotlib-users] legend frame and font size.

[Norbert N. <Nor...@gm...>]

I just sent patches about this to matplotlib-devel.

The current version has two problems with this:

* legend does not take kwargs. All the options like FONTSIZE, PAD and others 
can only be set globally as class variables of Legend

* the option FONTSIZE - even if changed globally - is flat out ignored. It is 
used once for a calculation, but the crucial routine Legend.draw() completely 
ignores it.

Both problems are fixed with my patches (see matplotlib-devel or wait for them 
to appear in CVS)

Ciao,
Norbert


On Tuesday 16 November 2004 18:52, Cory Davis wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Can anyone tell me how to change the size of the legend produced by
> matlab.legend independently of my axis tick labels?
>
> lh=legend(['a','b','c'],loc=4,fontsize=8)
>
> doesn't work and there seems to be nothing in the lh object that would
> help.
>
> Cheers,
> Cory
>
>
>
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Re: [Matplotlib-users] legend frame and font size.

[John H. <jdh...@ac...>]

>>>>> "Norbert" == Norbert Nemec <Nor...@gm...> writes:

    Norbert> I just sent patches about this to matplotlib-devel.  The
    Norbert> current version has two problems with this:

Until these are incorporated, there is still an easy way to customize
the legend text (and other properties of legends) which is illustrated
in http://matplotlib.sf.net/examples/legend_demo.py.  Here is the
approach, in brief

    leg = legend(... legend args here)
    texts = leg.get_texts()
    set(texts, fontsize='small', color='r')

JDH