.. only:: html .. note:: :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note Click :ref:`here ` to download the full example code .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title .. _sphx_glr_gallery_text_labels_and_annotations_autowrap.py: ================== Auto-wrapping text ================== Matplotlib can wrap text automatically, but if it's too long, the text will be displayed slightly outside of the boundaries of the axis anyways. .. image:: /gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/images/sphx_glr_autowrap_001.png :class: sphx-glr-single-img .. code-block:: default import matplotlib.pyplot as plt fig = plt.figure() plt.axis([0, 10, 0, 10]) t = ("This is a really long string that I'd rather have wrapped so that it " "doesn't go outside of the figure, but if it's long enough it will go " "off the top or bottom!") plt.text(4, 1, t, ha='left', rotation=15, wrap=True) plt.text(6, 5, t, ha='left', rotation=15, wrap=True) plt.text(5, 5, t, ha='right', rotation=-15, wrap=True) plt.text(5, 10, t, fontsize=18, style='oblique', ha='center', va='top', wrap=True) plt.text(3, 4, t, family='serif', style='italic', ha='right', wrap=True) plt.text(-1, 0, t, ha='left', rotation=-15, wrap=True) plt.show() .. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_text_labels_and_annotations_autowrap.py: .. only :: html .. container:: sphx-glr-footer :class: sphx-glr-footer-example .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python :download:`Download Python source code: autowrap.py ` .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: autowrap.ipynb ` .. only:: html .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature Keywords: matplotlib code example, codex, python plot, pyplot `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery `_