<div dir="ltr">In principle yes, but I think it would depend on how general / reliable the algorithm is vs how complex and invasive the algorithm ends up being.<div><br></div><div>Tom</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 2:40 PM Ilya Flyamer <<a href="mailto:flyamer@gmail.com">flyamer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto" class="gmail_msg">Would an approach similar to adjustText be something you could consider for mpl? I was already thinking of adding this to the library.</div><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg">9 Янв 2017 г. 15:15 пользователь "Thomas Caswell" <<a href="mailto:tcaswell@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">tcaswell@gmail.com</a>> написал:</div></div><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg"><br type="attribution" class="gmail_msg"><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">I am pretty sure that 'best' is picking from one of the 9 positions [(top, middle, bottom)X(left, center, right)] not picking a continuous position.</p>
<p dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">Fixing this would be useful and a pretty major new feature.  It is not clear to me what the best algorithm for this would be.  The obvious thing is to run N more refinements around each point, but hopefully there is some computational geometry that I do not know.</p>
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<br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">On Mon, Jan 9, 2017, 09:07 Neal Becker <<a href="mailto:ndbecker2@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">ndbecker2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg"></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">In the attached, the legend box slightly covers the graph, but there is no<br class="m_677851600701869186m_-3547623003667211904gmail_msg gmail_msg">
need to, it could just be moved a bit lower and then would cover nothing.<br class="m_677851600701869186m_-3547623003667211904gmail_msg gmail_msg">
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