FIX: move title(s) up if subscripts hang too low. #11502

jklymak · 2018-06-25T03:58:12Z

PR Summary

Partially adresses #11468. See also #11499 for multiline fixes...

EDIT:

Currently if a title has a large subscript, usually because it is math text (though large title font sizes can do the same thing), it will overhang the axes.

This PR adjusts the title position so this doesn't happen. It moves all three titles (left, right and centre) to the same level to maintain consistency of the baseline on the axes.

Note that the new version can overspill the top of the figure unless tight_layout or constrained_layout are used. But that overspill is still better than spilling down over the axes in my opinion.

Code

import matplotlib
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

fig, axs = plt.subplots(1, 2, figsize=(9, 2.5), constrained_layout=True)
ax = axs[0]
ax.set_title('$\sum_{i} x_i$')
ax.set_title('New way', loc='left')
ax.set_xticklabels('')

ax = axs[1]
tt = ax.set_title('$\sum_{i} x_i$')
x, y = tt.get_position()
tt.set_position((x, 1.01))
ax.set_title('Old Way', loc='left')
ax.set_xticklabels('')
plt.show()

PR Checklist

Has Pytest style unit tests
Code is PEP 8 compliant
New features are documented, with examples if plot related
Documentation is sphinx and numpydoc compliant
Added an entry to doc/users/next_whats_new/ if major new feature (follow instructions in README.rst there)
Documented in doc/api/api_changes.rst if API changed in a backward-incompatible way

jklymak · 2018-06-25T14:03:11Z

OK, so this "only" fails 50 tests - all of which have titles (i.e. about 16 individual tests). If this is an OK approach I will regenerate the test images.

Pros: large subscript titles won't drop down below the top of the axes.

Cons: The baseline of a title like "platypus" would be displaced vertically from the top of the axes relative to a title like "aardvark"

timhoffm · 2018-06-27T07:42:33Z

I don't think the con is even true:

fd_bottom = {'verticalalignment': 'bottom'}
fd_baseline = {'verticalalignment': 'baseline'}

_, axs = plt.subplots(1, 2)
axs[0].plot([1, 3, 2])
axs[1].plot([1, 3, 2])

axs[0].set_title('baseline', loc='left', fontdict=fd_baseline)
axs[0].set_title('ggggggg', loc='center', fontdict=fd_baseline)
axs[1].set_title('bottom', loc='left', fontdict=fd_bottom)
axs[1].set_title('ggggggggg', loc='center', fontdict=fd_bottom)

So, 👍

tacaswell · 2018-06-29T00:15:47Z

👍

Can you check if those tests are actually testing titles? Any which are not should probably have the title removed (to reduce our exposure to font-related changes in general).

Is this just a matter of tuning the padding just right to make it match?

jklymak · 2018-07-02T16:12:39Z

OK: I decided I didn't like this approach because it allowed no way to align the titles (at their baselines) without manually doing verticalalign='baseline'. This algorithm is a bit more complicated, but does the right thing (I'd argue). Note that if any of the three titles (left, centre, and right) are manually moved, this all turns off, so the user still has manual placement ability.

This is also going to fail far fewer tests....

After:

jklymak · 2018-07-02T20:51:46Z

This only fails two tests in tight_layout where for some reason the x/y line gets shifted by a point for some funky reason. It happens locally as well, so I can re-produce. Its a little funky and likely to do with pixel snapping, but is harmless to the test...

efiring

Apart from the two minor specific comments, this looks good to me.
But doesn't it need one added test like the illustrations that are given above to motivate the PR?

efiring · 2018-08-18T23:45:26Z

lib/matplotlib/axes/_base.py

        for title in titles:
            x, y0 = title.get_position()
-            y = 1.0
+            y = 1
+            # need to start agin in case of window resizing


Typo in comment.

efiring · 2018-08-18T23:48:53Z

lib/matplotlib/axes/_base.py

+                    y = 1
+            bt = title.get_window_extent(renderer)
+            # need to do twice to get right for manual resizing
+            for nn in range(1):


This is doing it only once. Does it really need to be done twice?

Once works!

jklymak · 2018-08-19T04:15:29Z

Thanks @efiring test added...

timhoffm · 2018-08-19T21:12:48Z

lib/matplotlib/axes/_base.py

-                        y = max(y, yn)
+                    else:
+                        bb = ax.get_window_extent(renderer)
+                    top = np.max((top, bb.ymax))


Not that it's particular important, but I would just use the builtin max(). It's easier to read and also faster for just two numbers.

timhoffm · 2018-08-19T21:13:25Z

lib/matplotlib/axes/_base.py

+                    y = self.transAxes.inverted().transform(
+                        (0., top - dy))[1]
+                title.set_position((x, y))
+            ymax = np.max((y, ymax))


Builtin max()?

timhoffm · 2018-08-19T21:25:04Z

lib/matplotlib/axes/_base.py

+                    y = 1
+            bt = title.get_window_extent(renderer)
+            dy = bt.ymin - top
+            if dy < 0:


AFAICS this dy value is not used again. In that case, it would be more clear to:

if title.get_window_extent(renderer).ymin < top: # title overlaps the Axes ...

IMO the temporary variables do not add to the clarity of the code.

Sorry, leftovers from debugging where the temporary variables were used a few more times ;-)

timhoffm · 2018-08-19T21:27:07Z

lib/matplotlib/axes/_base.py

+                y = self.transAxes.inverted().transform(
+                        (0., top))[1]
+                title.set_position((x, y))
+                bt = title.get_window_extent(renderer)


Can you please add a short comment, why you do the setting of the position in two steps?

Hmmm, yes, it should be exactly the same w/ or w/o the extra block, but emperically its not with the state that get_extents is in now... 😢 Comment added...

timhoffm

I'll leave it up to you, if you want to update the max() usages.

timhoffm · 2018-08-21T21:05:50Z

lib/matplotlib/axes/_base.py

-                        y = max(y, yn)
+                    else:
+                        bb = ax.get_window_extent(renderer)
+                    top = max((top, bb.ymax))


max(top, bb.ymax) would work as well, i.e. multiple arguments instead of a tuple. It's even slightly more clean.

TST: Add test for large subscript

jklymak · 2018-08-21T22:03:03Z

Thanks @timhoffm , fixed!

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jklymak changed the title ~~FIX: move title verticalalignment to bottom from baseline~~ FIX: move title(s) up if subscripts hang too low. Jul 3, 2018

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Layout managers have problems with titles containing MathText #11468

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FIX: move titles up if overlap axes

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TST: Add test for large subscript

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constrained_layout (sometimes) clips multiline title/xlabel/ylabel #13843

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FIX: turn off title autopos if pad is set #16862

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