Re: [Matplotlib-users] Re: figlegend

[John H. <jdh...@ac...>]

>>>>> "Werner" == Werner F Bruhin <wer...@fr...> writes:

    Werner> I still have a bit of a problem.  This puts the legend
    Werner> "more or less" outside the plot.  If I use "upper right"
    Werner> with only two lines it is o.k., however if I use
    Werner> e.g. "center right" then about half of the legend is still
    Werner> over the top of the plot.


I think the best approach is to use fig.add_axes rather than
fig.add_subplot to create your axes.  Then you can make it the exact
size you want.  You can also place the figure legend anywhere you want
by using loc=(x,y) instead of a location string.  I just noticed this
was undocumented :-(.  It *is* documented for the axes legend, and
I'll fix the figure legend docstring for the next release.

Here's a little example

    import pylab as p
    fig = p.figure()
    ax = fig.add_axes([0.1, 0.3, 0.4, 0.4])

    lines = ax.plot([1,2,3])
    fig.legend(lines, ('hi', ), loc=(0.6, 0.6))
    p.show()

Hope this helps,
JDH