.. _pylab_examples-text_rotation_relative_to_line:

pylab_examples example code: text_rotation_relative_to_line.py
==============================================================



.. plot:: /home/mandrake/rpm/BUILD/matplotlib-1.1.1/doc/mpl_examples/pylab_examples/text_rotation_relative_to_line.py

::

    #!/usr/bin/env python
    """
    Text objects in matplotlib are normally rotated with respect to the
    screen coordinate system (i.e., 45 degrees rotation plots text along a
    line that is inbetween horizontal and vertical no matter how the axes
    are changed).  However, at times one wants to rotate text with respect
    to something on the plot.  In this case, the correct angle won't be
    the angle of that object in the plot coordinate system, but the angle
    that that object APPEARS in the screen coordinate system.  This angle
    is found by transforming the angle from the plot to the screen
    coordinate system, as shown in the example below.
    """
    from pylab import *
    
    # Plot diagonal line (45 degrees)
    h = plot( r_[:10], r_[:10] )
    
    # set limits so that it no longer looks on screen to be 45 degrees
    xlim([-10,20])
    
    # Locations to plot text
    l1 = array((1,1))
    l2 = array((5,5))
    
    # Rotate angle
    angle = 45
    trans_angle = gca().transData.transform_angles(array((45,)),
                                                   l2.reshape((1,2)))[0]
    
    # Plot text
    th1 = text(l1[0],l1[1],'text not rotated correctly',fontsize=16,
               rotation=angle)
    th2 = text(l2[0],l2[1],'text not rotated correctly',fontsize=16,
               rotation=trans_angle)
    
    show()
    

Keywords: python, matplotlib, pylab, example, codex (see :ref:`how-to-search-examples`)