.. _pyplots-text_commands:

pyplots example code: text_commands.py
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[`source code <text_commands.py>`_]

::

    # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
    
    fig = plt.figure()
    fig.suptitle('bold figure suptitle', fontsize=14, fontweight='bold')
    
    ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
    fig.subplots_adjust(top=0.85)
    ax.set_title('axes title')
    
    ax.set_xlabel('xlabel')
    ax.set_ylabel('ylabel')
    
    ax.text(3, 8, 'boxed italics text in data coords', style='italic',
            bbox={'facecolor':'red', 'alpha':0.5, 'pad':10})
    
    ax.text(2, 6, r'an equation: $E=mc^2$', fontsize=15)
    
    ax.text(3, 2, u'unicode: Institut f\374r Festk\366rperphysik')
    
    ax.text(0.95, 0.01, 'colored text in axes coords',
            verticalalignment='bottom', horizontalalignment='right',
            transform=ax.transAxes,
            color='green', fontsize=15)
    
    
    ax.plot([2], [1], 'o')
    ax.annotate('annotate', xy=(2, 1), xytext=(3, 4),
                arrowprops=dict(facecolor='black', shrink=0.05))
    
    ax.axis([0, 10, 0, 10])
    
    plt.show()
    

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