Re: [Matplotlib-users] axes.text() plotting text outside of axes bounds

[Michael D. <md...@st...>]

On 01/22/2014 09:43 AM, Benjamin Root wrote:
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> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 9:21 AM, Daryl Herzmann <ak...@gm... 
> <mailto:ak...@gm...>> wrote:
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>     Hello,
>
>     I'm wondering why stuff plotted with ax.text() does not get
>     "clipped" by the axes bounds on the plot.  Here's a simple
>     example, run with 1.3.1:
>
>     import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
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>     (fig, ax) = plt.subplots(1,1)
>
>     for i in range(5):
>       for j in range(5):
>         ax.text(i,j, "%sx%s" % (i,j), ha='center', va='center')
>     ax.plot([0,8],[0,8])
>     ax.set_xlim(0,2.8)
>     ax.set_ylim(0,2.8)
>     fig.savefig('test.png')
>
>     and attached output.  This causes me lots of grief with basemap as
>     well.  Is there a non-brute-force trick to get these values
>     plotted outside the axes bounds removed?
>
>     daryl
>
>
> I can't quite remember what the original issue was, but I do seem to 
> recall that this behavior was made intentional for some reason. I 
> honestly can't remember why, though, and I can't fathom what 
> circumstances that this would be desirable...

Often, the text is an annotation that you would not want to have clipped.

```
ax.text(i,j, "%sx%s" % (i,j), ha='center', va='center').set_clip_on(True)
```

will turn the clipping on for the text.

Mike

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