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