Re: [Matplotlib-users] multi colored text

[Sterling S. <sm...@fu...>]

On Oct 30, 2013, at 7:47AM, Scott Lasley wrote:

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> On Oct 30, 2013, at 10:14, Neal Becker <ndb...@gm...> wrote:
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>> I have a blue line plot and a green line plot.  I'd like to add some figtext at 
>> the bottom, and I'd like the text colors to match the plot colors.  So I'd have 
>> some text in blue and some in green.
>> 
>> figtext only allows one color
>> 
>> I could use 2 figtext, but then I have to manually find coordinate positions for 
>> the text.  That's ugly.
>> 
>> It would be nice if we had a TeX-like approach, where I could create a green 
>> text object and a blue text object, then assemble them by stacking boxes.
>> 
>> Any ideas?
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> I'm not sure it's the best approach, but I've used HPacker (or VPacker if you want more than one line) to do this


I have taken this approach as well. See part of my answer at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17086847/box-around-text-in-matplotlib/17092777#17092777