John Thanks! I tried set_clip_on but it did not work
> for me. I made the little script below which shows my
> point. "Hello" *still* hangs over the left side. Is
> this because the coordinates of the text are on the
> edge of the plot? Can clip_on be somehow applied to
> text with x = 0 as well?
If you want to clip to the axes bounding box, you either need to set
clip_on when the text instance is created
text(x,y,s, clip_on=True)
or later if you have an existing text instance 't' you can set the clip
bounding box manually
t.set_clip_box(ax.bbox)
JDH
···
from pylab import * plot([1,2,3]) t = text(0, 2.2,
> "Hello", horizontalalignment = 'center')
> t.set_clip_on(True) show()
> On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 08:32 -0600, John Hunter wrote:
>> >>>>> "Christian" == Christian Seberino
>> <seberino@...391...> writes:
>>
> How control whether text & plot elements can go beyond
> EDGE of plot? Is it possible to have some plot
> elements and text be able to go over and others get
> chopped off?
>> You can turn the clipping attribute on or off for any artist
>> element. Artist is base class for all matplotlib elements in
>> the figure (Figure, Axes, Line2D, Patches, Text...)
>>
>> http://matplotlib.sf.net/matplotlib.artist.html
>>
>> You will want to set the "clip_on" attribute for any line (or
>> text or whatever) element
>>
>> t = ax.text(x,y,s) t.set_clip_on(False)
>>
>> l, = ax.plot([1,2,3]) l.set_clip_on(False)
>>
>> Or you can use setp to control the properties of one or more
>> artists
>>
>> setp([t,l], clip_on=False)
>>
>> By default when clpping is on, the artists are clipped to the
>> edges of the Axes rectangle. You can control the clipping box
>> by passing a custom bbox to clip_box attribute
>>
>> from pylab import figure, show, draw, rand from
>> matplotlib.transforms import lbwh_to_bbox bbox =
>> lbwh_to_bbox(100,200,50,70) fig = figure() ax =
>> fig.add_subplot(111)
>>
>> line, = ax.plot(rand(100), rand(100)) line.set_clip_box(bbox)
>> show()
>>
>> Note that the clip box is in figure coordinates (pixels from
>> lower, left)
>>
>> JDH
>>
>>
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