Text line spacing control

John,

Thanks for your prompt response. I think the option can be useful. In my case, the gap between the lines are really tight with "_" in the first line right on the top of characters in the second line.

Regards,
Jianfu

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At 12:31 PM 7/10/2007, John Hunter wrote:

On 7/10/07, Jianfu Pan <Jianfu.Pan@...245...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use Text() call of Figure() object for writing text. Because my text is
> long, I use line breaker (\n) to write multiple lines with a single
> call. This works fine except the line spacing is really tight and I wish I
> could set a bigger line spacing. Does anyone know if this is
> possible? Thanks for your time.

Currently not, the pad between the newline is hard coded, but we could
expose it as a parameter w/o too much work.

JDH

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As a coincidence, just today I was trying to figure out how to increase the spacing between the lines in the title of my plot.
I too, would like some means to control this.

--Jim

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On Jul 10, 2007, at 10:48 AM, Jianfu Pan wrote:

John,

Thanks for your prompt response. I think the option can be useful. In my
case, the gap between the lines are really tight with "_" in the first line
right on the top of characters in the second line.

Regards,
Jianfu

At 12:31 PM 7/10/2007, John Hunter wrote:

On 7/10/07, Jianfu Pan <Jianfu.Pan@...245...> wrote:

Hi,

I use Text() call of Figure() object for writing text. Because my text is
long, I use line breaker (\n) to write multiple lines with a single
call. This works fine except the line spacing is really tight and I wish I
could set a bigger line spacing. Does anyone know if this is
possible? Thanks for your time.

Currently not, the pad between the newline is hard coded, but we could
expose it as a parameter w/o too much work.

JDH

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James Boyle wrote:

As a coincidence, just today I was trying to figure out how to increase the spacing between the lines in the title of my plot.
I too, would like some means to control this.

You've got it now in svn. Be aware that mpl now requires numpy. That doesn't mean you can't use Numeric and/or numarray arrays and packages, or the matplotlib.numerix package, but it does mean you must have numpy installed to build matplotlib from svn or any future release.

I think you will find the default line spacing is now better than it was, regardless of font size. Default line spacing is 1.2 * H, where H is the maximum vertical extent of normal text (bottom of descender to top of ascender. This is about typical for normal typesetting, as far as I can tell. The multiplier is accessible as a new kwarg (linespacing) in commands that make Text objects. For example, if you want wider spacing in your title you could use the pylab command

title('First Line\nSecond Line', linespacing=1.5)

Eric

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--Jim

On Jul 10, 2007, at 10:48 AM, Jianfu Pan wrote:

John,

Thanks for your prompt response. I think the option can be useful. In my
case, the gap between the lines are really tight with "_" in the first line
right on the top of characters in the second line.

Regards,
Jianfu