Re: [Matplotlib-users] RE : unable to draw text at angles other than 0 or 90

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:21 AM, WALTER Alain <ala...@th...
> wrote:

> Hi Ben,
> I don't want to display rotate text ! I just need to display a simple text
> to my figure :
>
>  ax.text(onevolume['long'][i],onevolume['lat'][i],onevolume['upper'][i],onevolume['point'][i],color=linecolor)
> In addition, I do not understand your remark about GDK, If I remember, I
> need to use the following modules because FigureCanvas and NavigationToolbar
> are required.
> from matplotlib.backends.backend_gtk import FigureCanvasGTK as FigureCanvas
> from matplotlib.backends.backend_gtk import NavigationToolbar2GTK as
> NavigationToolbar
>
> Anyway I cannot reproduce the warning, it is a little bit strange !
> Thank you
>
>
Disregard what I said earlier.  I didn't see that you were not trying to
rotate your text in the first place.

What is an example value for "onevolume['point'][i]"?  The function
signature for ax.text() is that the first 2 positional arguments are the
coordinates, the third is the string to display (I would presume that
"onevolume['upper'][i]" has something to do with the text you are
displaying).  However, the "onevolume['point'][i]" is in the position for
the fontdict parameter of the function call.  This dictionary overrides the
default text properties, which I believe include properties like the
rotation angle.

Ben Root