.. _pylab_examples-alignment_test: pylab_examples example code: alignment_test.py ============================================== .. plot:: /home/tcaswell/other_source/matplotlib/doc/mpl_examples/pylab_examples/alignment_test.py :: #!/usr/bin/env python """ You can precisely layout text in data or axes (0,1) coordinates. This example shows you some of the alignment and rotation specifications to layout text """ from pylab import * from matplotlib.lines import Line2D from matplotlib.patches import Rectangle # build a rectangle in axes coords left, width = .25, .5 bottom, height = .25, .5 right = left + width top = bottom + height ax = gca() p = Rectangle((left, bottom), width, height, fill=False, ) p.set_transform(ax.transAxes) p.set_clip_on(False) ax.add_patch(p) ax.text(left, bottom, 'left top', horizontalalignment='left', verticalalignment='top', transform=ax.transAxes) ax.text(left, bottom, 'left bottom', horizontalalignment='left', verticalalignment='bottom', transform=ax.transAxes) ax.text(right, top, 'right bottom', horizontalalignment='right', verticalalignment='bottom', transform=ax.transAxes) ax.text(right, top, 'right top', horizontalalignment='right', verticalalignment='top', transform=ax.transAxes) ax.text(right, bottom, 'center top', horizontalalignment='center', verticalalignment='top', transform=ax.transAxes) ax.text(left, 0.5*(bottom+top), 'right center', horizontalalignment='right', verticalalignment='center', rotation='vertical', transform=ax.transAxes) ax.text(left, 0.5*(bottom+top), 'left center', horizontalalignment='left', verticalalignment='center', rotation='vertical', transform=ax.transAxes) ax.text(0.5*(left+right), 0.5*(bottom+top), 'middle', horizontalalignment='center', verticalalignment='center', transform=ax.transAxes) ax.text(right, 0.5*(bottom+top), 'centered', horizontalalignment='center', verticalalignment='center', rotation='vertical', transform=ax.transAxes) ax.text(left, top, 'rotated\nwith newlines', horizontalalignment='center', verticalalignment='center', rotation=45, transform=ax.transAxes) axis('off') show() Keywords: python, matplotlib, pylab, example, codex (see :ref:`how-to-search-examples`)