Re: [matplotlib-devel] Hacking on matplotlib

[Paul I. <piv...@gm...>]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 10, 2012, Mike Kaufman wrote:
>>
>> It would be nice to have the label and title methods take a Text object
>> (and a list of text objects -- each of whom could supply a piece of
>> different colored text) in addition to a string.
>>
>> A list of text objects would be automagically concatenated together. How
>> to generalize alignment of multiple text objects? Haven't thought that
>> far yet.
>>
>> Either that or develop some additional color markup (and a parser)
>> inside a string. Admittedly a bigger project -- though probably a better
>> solution.
>>
>> M
>>
>
> That is already a wishlist item.  Feel free to comment on its discussion
> thread with your ideas.

For reference, I believe Ben's referring to #697 [1], for which I provided a
possible implementation, which has the automagic concatenation you seek.

1. https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/697

best,

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