.. 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_pyplots_text_layout.py:
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Text Layout
===========
Create text with different alignment and rotation.
.. code-block:: default
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.patches as patches
fig = plt.figure()
left, width = .25, .5
bottom, height = .25, .5
right = left + width
top = bottom + height
# Draw a rectangle in figure coordinates ((0, 0) is bottom left and (1, 1) is
# upper right).
p = patches.Rectangle((left, bottom), width, height, fill=False)
fig.add_artist(p)
# Figure.text (aka. plt.figtext) behaves like Axes.text (aka. plt.text), with
# the sole exception that the coordinates are relative to the figure ((0, 0) is
# bottom left and (1, 1) is upper right).
fig.text(left, bottom, 'left top',
horizontalalignment='left', verticalalignment='top')
fig.text(left, bottom, 'left bottom',
horizontalalignment='left', verticalalignment='bottom')
fig.text(right, top, 'right bottom',
horizontalalignment='right', verticalalignment='bottom')
fig.text(right, top, 'right top',
horizontalalignment='right', verticalalignment='top')
fig.text(right, bottom, 'center top',
horizontalalignment='center', verticalalignment='top')
fig.text(left, 0.5*(bottom+top), 'right center',
horizontalalignment='right', verticalalignment='center',
rotation='vertical')
fig.text(left, 0.5*(bottom+top), 'left center',
horizontalalignment='left', verticalalignment='center',
rotation='vertical')
fig.text(0.5*(left+right), 0.5*(bottom+top), 'middle',
horizontalalignment='center', verticalalignment='center',
fontsize=20, color='red')
fig.text(right, 0.5*(bottom+top), 'centered',
horizontalalignment='center', verticalalignment='center',
rotation='vertical')
fig.text(left, top, 'rotated\nwith newlines',
horizontalalignment='center', verticalalignment='center',
rotation=45)
plt.show()
.. image:: /gallery/pyplots/images/sphx_glr_text_layout_001.png
:alt: text layout
:class: sphx-glr-single-img
------------
References
""""""""""
The use of the following functions, methods, classes and modules is shown
in this example:
.. code-block:: default
import matplotlib
matplotlib.figure.Figure.add_artist
matplotlib.figure.Figure.text
.. rst-class:: sphx-glr-script-out
Out:
.. code-block:: none
.. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_pyplots_text_layout.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_layout.py `
.. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter
:download:`Download Jupyter notebook: text_layout.ipynb `
.. only:: html
.. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature
Keywords: matplotlib code example, codex, python plot, pyplot
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