and also, how can I make only one point for the scatter legend?
if I use
leg=ax1.legend(loc='upper left', numpoints=1)
all the lines will disapper too...
wiswit wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I've made a plot (as attached). The problem is the frame of the legeng is
> too big that It covers some part of the lines in the figure.
> I used a 'x-samll' font size in the legend text, but the problem is that
> the space between the lines of different texts is too big that the
> whole frame of the legend becomes big.
>
> another question is, the font size of legend text can only be set as
> 'xx-small' | 'x-small' | 'small' | 'medium' | 'large' | 'x-large' |
> 'xx-large' , but not specific numbers?
>
> Any ideas about this will be very much appreciated.
>
>
> ############################################### the script:
> fig1=plt.figure()
> fig1.text(0.5,0.04,'Years since last
> burn',ha='center',rotation='horizontal')
> fig1.text(0.05,0.45,'Total biomass(gC
> m-2)',va='center',rotation='vertical')
> ax1=fig1.add_subplot(111)
> for i in range(7):
>
> ax1.plot(np.arange(1,len(ns2['TOTAL_M'][i])+1),ns2['TOTAL_M'][i],g.pline[i],label=bsite.NSlist[i])
> ax1.plot(data[:,0],data[:,13],'k.',markersize=10,label='Goulden et
> al.,2011')
> ax1.plot(wdata[:,0][0:7],wdata[:,6][0:7],'r.',markersize=10,label='Wang et
> al.,2003 Dry')
> ax1.plot(wdata[:,0][7:14],wdata[:,6][7:14],'g.',markersize=10,label='Wang
> et al.,2003 Wet')
> leg=ax1.legend(loc='upper left')
> ltext = leg.get_texts()
> llines = leg.get_lines()
> frame = leg.get_frame()
> plt.setp(ltext, fontsize='x-small')
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Chao
> http://old.nabble.com/file/p31918421/CA-NS_BiomassCarbon_modelVSob.png
>
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