From f49a0beb31d202e4d60b9b540ee78ca31426dec6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Elan Ernest <23121882+ImportanceOfBeingErnest@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 21:16:09 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Backport PR #12555: Clarify horizontalalignment and
 verticalalignment in suptitle

---
 lib/matplotlib/figure.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/figure.py b/lib/matplotlib/figure.py
index baed622914bc..c6ed8335cd40 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/figure.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/figure.py
@@ -691,11 +691,11 @@ def suptitle(self, t, **kwargs):
             The y location of the text in figure coordinates.
 
         horizontalalignment, ha : {'center', 'left', right'}, default: 'center'
-            The horizontal alignment of the text.
+            The horizontal alignment of the text relative to (*x*, *y*).
 
         verticalalignment, va : {'top', 'center', 'bottom', 'baseline'}, \
 default: 'top'
-            The vertical alignment of the text.
+            The vertical alignment of the text relative to (*x*, *y*).
 
         fontsize, size : default: :rc:`figure.titlesize`
             The font size of the text. See `.Text.set_size` for possible