.. _pylab_examples-multiline: pylab_examples example code: multiline.py ========================================= .. plot:: /home/mdboom/Work/builds/matplotlib/doc/mpl_examples/pylab_examples/multiline.py :: #!/usr/bin/env python from pylab import * #from matplotlib.pyplot import * #from numpy import arange if 1: figure(figsize=(7, 4)) ax = subplot(121) ax.set_aspect(1) plot(arange(10)) xlabel('this is a xlabel\n(with newlines!)') ylabel('this is vertical\ntest', multialignment='center') #ylabel('this is another!') text(2, 7,'this is\nyet another test', rotation=45, horizontalalignment = 'center', verticalalignment = 'top', multialignment = 'center') grid(True) subplot(122) text(0.29, 0.7, "Mat\nTTp\n123", size=18, va="baseline", ha="right", multialignment="left", bbox=dict(fc="none")) text(0.34, 0.7, "Mag\nTTT\n123", size=18, va="baseline", ha="left", multialignment="left", bbox=dict(fc="none")) text(0.95, 0.7, "Mag\nTTT$^{A^A}$\n123", size=18, va="baseline", ha="right", multialignment="left", bbox=dict(fc="none")) xticks([0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1.], ["Jan\n2009","Feb\n2009","Mar\n2009", "Apr\n2009", "May\n2009"]) axhline(0.7) title("test line spacing for multiline text") subplots_adjust(bottom=0.25, top=0.8) draw() show() Keywords: python, matplotlib, pylab, example, codex (see :ref:`how-to-search-examples`)