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

[Ilya Flyamer]

OK, when I find the time to add it to adjustText, I'll get back to you to
discuss this.

2017-01-10 18:22 GMT+00:00 Thomas Caswell <tcaswell at gmail.com>:

> 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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