.. 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_text_alignment.py: =================== Precise text layout =================== You can precisely layout text in data or axes coordinates. This example shows you some of the alignment and rotation specifications for text layout. .. image:: /gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/images/sphx_glr_text_alignment_001.png :class: sphx-glr-single-img .. code-block:: default import matplotlib.pyplot as plt # Build a rectangle in axes coords left, width = .25, .5 bottom, height = .25, .5 right = left + width top = bottom + height ax = plt.gca() p = plt.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) plt.axis('off') plt.show() .. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_text_labels_and_annotations_text_alignment.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: text_alignment.py ` .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: text_alignment.ipynb ` .. only:: html .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature Keywords: matplotlib code example, codex, python plot, pyplot `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery `_