[Matplotlib-users] legend(loc='best') a bit off

[Thomas Caswell]

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.

Tom

On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 2:40 PM Ilya Flyamer <flyamer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Would an approach similar to adjustText be something you could consider
> for mpl? I was already thinking of adding this to the library.
>
> 9 Янв 2017 г. 15:15 пользователь "Thomas Caswell" <tcaswell at gmail.com>
> написал:
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Tom
>
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2017, 09:07 Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> In the attached, the legend box slightly covers the graph, but there is no
> need to, it could just be moved a bit lower and then would cover nothing.
>
> My questions:
> 1) can I fix it?
> 2) is this a bug?_______________________________________________
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