Re: [Matplotlib-users] Change column number within legend

[ChaoYue <cha...@gm...>]

could you use the bbox_to_anchor keyword to place your legend in a precise
way so that they could be alignd?
sorry ,this is the only way I could think of (But I am not a real expert in
matplotlib)

Chao

On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 5:45 PM, Tyrax [via matplotlib] <
ml-...@n5...> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> this is my first eMail to a mailing list, I hope I'm not messing it up. I
> posted my question already on stackoverflow, but apparently there's no
> simple solution to it:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17909251/pyplot-change-ncols-within-a-legend
>
> In other words, I have a Figure with a many-entries-legend, but the legend
> text for most but not all of the object is very short. I'd like to use two
> or more columns for those short entries and switch back to single column
> mode when dealing with the longer legend entries.
>
> Two options came to my mind. One, make the legend work like a
> multicolumn-table in LaTeX or, two, having a container with multiple,
> well-aligned legends with individual properties for each one.
>
> I tried to solve my problem by setting up two legends. The downside is the
> need for additional aligning of the two legends. Even this is still beyond
> my skills.
>
> Thanks, Tyrax
>
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