.. _pylab_examples-multiline:

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

::

    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
    import numpy as np
    
    plt.figure(figsize=(7, 4))
    ax = plt.subplot(121)
    ax.set_aspect(1)
    plt.plot(np.arange(10))
    plt.xlabel('this is a xlabel\n(with newlines!)')
    plt.ylabel('this is vertical\ntest', multialignment='center')
    plt.text(2, 7, 'this is\nyet another test',
             rotation=45,
             horizontalalignment='center',
             verticalalignment='top',
             multialignment='center')
    
    plt.grid(True)
    
    plt.subplot(122)
    
    plt.text(0.29, 0.4, "Mat\nTTp\n123", size=18,
             va="baseline", ha="right", multialignment="left",
             bbox=dict(fc="none"))
    
    plt.text(0.34, 0.4, "Mag\nTTT\n123", size=18,
             va="baseline", ha="left", multialignment="left",
             bbox=dict(fc="none"))
    
    plt.text(0.95, 0.4, "Mag\nTTT$^{A^A}$\n123", size=18,
             va="baseline", ha="right", multialignment="left",
             bbox=dict(fc="none"))
    
    plt.xticks([0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1.],
               ["Jan\n2009", "Feb\n2009", "Mar\n2009", "Apr\n2009", "May\n2009"])
    
    plt.axhline(0.4)
    plt.title("test line spacing for multiline text")
    
    plt.subplots_adjust(bottom=0.25, top=0.75)
    plt.draw()
    plt.show()
    

Keywords: python, matplotlib, pylab, example, codex (see :ref:`how-to-search-examples`)