[Matplotlib-users] Re: figlegend

[Werner F. B. <wer...@fr...>]

Hi John,

John Hunter wrote:
>>>>>>"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.
Pitty that I can't have both.  But I'll worry about this one when I 
actually do make use of the subplots.

   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 :-(. 
You think I would have found it:)

  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

Thanks, yes this did help!
Werner
> 
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