Re: [Matplotlib-users] Left-aligned and centered title

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

Florian,

I think that you need to add the ax.titleOffsetTrans to the ax.transAxes transformation.

ax.text(0,pos[1],letter,transform=ax.transAxes+ax.titleOffsetTrans,va=va)

-Sterling

On Mar 17, 2014, at 6:31AM, Florian M. Wagner wrote:

> Dear users,
> 
> I would like label my subplots with a horizontally left-aligned letter (wanted by the journal) and the normal, centered axes title, which should both be vertically in line. The following example does not work: 
> 
> from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
> import numpy as np
> 
> fig, ax1 = plt.subplots()
> x = np.linspace(1,10)
> y = (sin(x))
> ax1.plot(x,y)
> 
> def subplot_label(ax, letter, title):
>     title = ax.set_title(title)
>     pos = title.get_position()
>     va = title.get_va()
>     ax.text(0, pos[1], letter, transform=ax.transAxes, verticalalignment=va)
>  
> subplot_label(ax1, 'a)', 'This text is not aligned with the label')
> 
> Which property of the axes title am I missing?
> 
> Thank you for your help
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