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fix typo
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simplify creation of transparent legend
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5 changes: 2 additions & 3 deletions doc/users/recipes.rst
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Expand Up @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ you will see that the x tick labels are all squashed together.
plt.plot(r.date, r.close)
plt.title('Default date handling can cause overlapping labels')

Another annoyance is that if you hover the mouse over a the window and
Another annoyance is that if you hover the mouse over the window and
look in the lower right corner of the matplotlib toolbar
(:ref:`navigation-toolbar`) at the x and y coordinates, you see that
the x locations are formatted the same way the tick labels are, eg
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ax.plot(np.random.randn(300), 'o-', label='normal distribution')
ax.plot(np.random.rand(300), 's-', label='uniform distribution')
ax.set_ylim(-3, 3)
leg = ax.legend(loc='best', fancybox=True)
leg.get_frame().set_alpha(0.5)
ax.legend(loc='best', fancybox=True, framealpha=0.5)

ax.set_title('fancy, transparent legends')

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