[Matplotlib-users] Complex legend layout

[Antony L. <ant...@be...>]

Hi,

I have a plot with 9 lines, representing datasets with two varying
parameters, say f_11, f_12, f_13, ..., f_33.  To make the plot (a bit)
clearer, I encode the first parameter as the color of the line and the
second one as the linestyle (so f_11 is red & dashed, f12 is red & dotted,
f21 is green & dashed, f22 is green & dotted, etc.).  So, for the legend, I
would like to make a 3x3 table, looking like

param1 \ param2 | value1 | value2 | value3
-------------------------------------------------------------
value1|
value2|         <artists go there>
value3|

(it probably is going to look terrible in a proportional font but hopefully
you get the idea...).

Is there any way I can make this with matplotlib?  An idea would be to make
this box with LaTeX, but I need a way to plot the legend artists at the
right position.

Thanks,
Antony