.. _pylab_examples-alignment_test:

pylab_examples example code: alignment_test.py
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.. plot:: /home/tcaswell/source/p/matplotlib/doc/mpl_examples/pylab_examples/alignment_test.py

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    """
    You can precisely layout text in data or axes (0,1) coordinates.  This
    example shows you some of the alignment and rotation specifications to
    layout text
    """
    
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
    from matplotlib.lines import Line2D
    from matplotlib.patches import Rectangle
    
    # build a rectangle in axes coords
    left, width = .25, .5
    bottom, height = .25, .5
    right = left + width
    top = bottom + height
    ax = plt.gca()
    p = plt.Rectangle((left, bottom), width, height,
                  fill=False,
                  )
    p.set_transform(ax.transAxes)
    p.set_clip_on(False)
    ax.add_patch(p)
    
    
    ax.text(left, bottom, 'left top',
            horizontalalignment='left',
            verticalalignment='top',
            transform=ax.transAxes)
    
    ax.text(left, bottom, 'left bottom',
            horizontalalignment='left',
            verticalalignment='bottom',
            transform=ax.transAxes)
    
    ax.text(right, top, 'right bottom',
            horizontalalignment='right',
            verticalalignment='bottom',
            transform=ax.transAxes)
    
    ax.text(right, top, 'right top',
            horizontalalignment='right',
            verticalalignment='top',
            transform=ax.transAxes)
    
    ax.text(right, bottom, 'center top',
            horizontalalignment='center',
            verticalalignment='top',
            transform=ax.transAxes)
    
    ax.text(left, 0.5*(bottom + top), 'right center',
            horizontalalignment='right',
            verticalalignment='center',
            rotation='vertical',
            transform=ax.transAxes)
    
    ax.text(left, 0.5*(bottom + top), 'left center',
            horizontalalignment='left',
            verticalalignment='center',
            rotation='vertical',
            transform=ax.transAxes)
    
    ax.text(0.5*(left + right), 0.5*(bottom + top), 'middle',
            horizontalalignment='center',
            verticalalignment='center',
            transform=ax.transAxes)
    
    ax.text(right, 0.5*(bottom + top), 'centered',
            horizontalalignment='center',
            verticalalignment='center',
            rotation='vertical',
            transform=ax.transAxes)
    
    ax.text(left, top, 'rotated\nwith newlines',
            horizontalalignment='center',
            verticalalignment='center',
            rotation=45,
            transform=ax.transAxes)
    
    plt.axis('off')
    
    plt.show()
    

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