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Take text objects into account in legend autopositioning. #7869
Description
Legend autopositioning currently does not take text objects into account as can be checked by running
plt.plot([0, 1], label="foo"); plt.text(.05, .95, "a"); plt.legend()
This is because text objects are not included in _auto_legend_data (which only serves that purpose, AFAICT).
Adding them should be easy, but extra points if the autoplacement algorithm penalizes overlapping with text more than overlapping with other artists (given that it's probably indeed worse in general).
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RiazCharania commentedon Mar 2, 2020
Is anyone else currently working on this? If not I'll give it a try.
timhoffm commentedon Mar 4, 2020
Go for it.
github-actions commentedon Apr 6, 2023
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anntzer commentedon Apr 6, 2023
I still think this would be nice.
github-actions commentedon Apr 12, 2024
This issue has been marked "inactive" because it has been 365 days since the last comment. If this issue is still present in recent Matplotlib releases, or the feature request is still wanted, please leave a comment and this label will be removed. If there are no updates in another 30 days, this issue will be automatically closed, but you are free to re-open or create a new issue if needed. We value issue reports, and this procedure is meant to help us resurface and prioritize issues that have not been addressed yet, not make them disappear. Thanks for your help!
saranti commentedon Jun 15, 2024
I think this was fixed by 87d05ae
anntzer commentedon Jun 15, 2024
Indeed.