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7 changes: 7 additions & 0 deletions examples/text_labels_and_annotations/autowrap.py
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Matplotlib can wrap text automatically, but if it's too long, the text will be
displayed slightly outside of the boundaries of the axis anyways.

Note: Auto-wrapping does not work together with
``savefig(..., bbox_inches='tight')``. The 'tight' setting rescales the canvas
to accommodate all content and happens before wrapping. This affects
``%matplotlib inline`` in IPython and Jupyter notebooks where the inline
setting uses ``bbox_inches='tight'`` by default when saving the image to
embed.
"""

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
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8 changes: 8 additions & 0 deletions lib/matplotlib/text.py
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Expand Up @@ -544,6 +544,14 @@ def set_wrap(self, wrap):
Parameters
----------
wrap : bool

Notes
-----
Wrapping does not work together with
``savefig(..., bbox_inches='tight')`` (which is also used internally
by ``%matplotlib inline`` in IPython/Jupyter). The 'tight' setting
rescales the canvas to accommodate all content and happens before
wrapping.
"""
self._wrap = wrap

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