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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.
Note: Auto-wrapping does not work together with
savefig(..., bbox_inches='tight')
. The 'tight' setting rescales the canvas
to accommodate all content and happens before wrapping. This affects
%matplotlib inline
in IPython and Jupyter notebooks where the inline
setting uses bbox_inches='tight'
by default when saving the image to
embed.
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()