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Hi all,
Sorry for the multiple posting, this concerns various groups, and I'd
rather the information not be lost.
While working on getting our in-lab library ready to be merged with NiPy,
I ran into some sort of 'sphinx extension mess' where various sphinx
extension would have side effects on each other, and most important, the
extensions did not work with sphinx trunk.
I got the side effects to be limited by cleaning up the generated code
from autosummary before each run: I added the following code in my
sphinx conf.py:
################################################################################
# Hack: run the autosummary generation script 
import shutil
if os.path.exists('generated'):
 shutil.rmtree('generated')
os.system('%s sphinxext/autosummary_generate.py -o generated *.rst' %
 sys.executable)
################################################################################
I am attaching a diff of all the modifications I made to get the various
extensions to work. I hope you can use it to get your various extensions
working on sphinx trunk quicker. For the NiPy guys, I will be committing
these changes in the fff2 tree soon, and we can go over this at the
sprint.
This does raise a problem: this extension code is all over the place, in
various repository. Some of the code cannot live in the sphinx repo, as
it introduces dependencies. However, as the extensions are not importable
from Python (I can't do 'from matplotlib.sphinxext import mathmpl'), the
different projects using them end up copying them in their repo, and thus
there are several versions floating around not updated. Some of the
extensions would do not add externa dependencies to sphinx. These should
be pushed into sphinx, with tests. That way as sphinx evolves, they do
not break.
Gaël

I just committed the support of the legend title into the trunk.
See the legend_demo3.py.
Regards,
-JJ
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Jae-Joon Lee <lee...@gm...> wrote:
> John and Sandro,
>
> I just had a quick look at the patch. The patch is for older version
> of the mpl, and I couldn't test it yet. Anyhow, it should be straight
> forward to port it to the new legend class. I'll work on it.
>
> Meanwhile, below is a little code one may use to put the legend title
> w/o modifying the mpl.
>
> -JJ
>
> plot([1,2,3])
> plot([2,1,3])
> legend(["test", "test2"])
>
> fig = gcf()
> ax = gca()
>
> from matplotlib.offsetbox import TextArea, VPacker
>
> mylegend=ax.get_legend()
> legendtitle=TextArea( "Legend Title", textprops=dict(size=20))
> mylegend._legend_box = VPacker(pad=5,
> sep=0,
> children=[legendtitle, mylegend._legend_box],
> align="center")
> mylegend._legend_box.set_figure(fig)
>
> draw()
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 7:20 AM, John Hunter <jd...@gm...> wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 3:31 AM, Sandro Tosi <mo...@de...> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> a friend point me to [1] asking if there's a way to add a title to
>>> legend without applying this patch. Well, my answer was "not that I
>>> know of" then I start wondering if there's a reason this patch was not
>>> applied and there's a plan to do it anytime soon.
>>>
>>> [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/matplotlib-users%40lists.sourceforge.net/msg05678.html
>>
>> Jae Joon -- will you review this and apply it if it looks like a good
>> addition to you
>>
>> Thanks,
>> JDH
>>
>