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Legend location and text alignment issues

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Harshit_Khare
Harshit_KhareDec 07, 2016   #1

I’m trying to recreate a plot using Bokeh, hit some issues. Original plot, attempted plot, code attached.

Issues:

  1. Legend is appearing in the middle of the plot even though I tried adding it below, and setting its location to ‘bottom_center’. Not working.

  2. Major labels on the y-axis are not getting aligned to the left. I tried putting major_label_text_align=‘left’.

  3. When I try and add three labels above the plot, instead of two, the plot collapses. This issue is referenced here: models/legends example broken · Issue #4561 · bokeh/bokeh · GitHub . But the solution listed there of putting title=None is not solving the issue here.

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

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Mateusz_Paprocki
Mateusz_PaprockiDec 07, 2016   #2

Hi,

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On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 5:37 PM, Harshit Khare khareharshit@gmail.com wrote:

I’m trying to recreate a plot using Bokeh, hit some issues. Original plot, attempted plot, code attached.

Issues:

  1. Legend is appearing in the middle of the plot even though I tried adding it below, and setting its location to ‘bottom_center’. Not working.

Off-view legends currently don’t work very well. This is fixed in https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh/pull/5349, which will be part of upcoming bokeh 0.12.4 release. Then you will have to change Legend.location to “center” (instead of “bottom_center”).

  1. Major labels on the y-axis are not getting aligned to the left. I tried putting major_label_text_align=‘left’.

Apparently major_label_text_align is a no-op. We have to implement it.

  1. When I try and add three labels above the plot, instead of two, the plot collapses. This issue is referenced here: https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh/issues/4561 . But the solution listed there of putting title=None is not solving the issue here.

If the workaround doesn’t work, then we just need to fix this issue (not an easy one).

Mateusz

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

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Mateusz_Paprocki
Mateusz_PaprockiDec 07, 2016   #3

Hi,

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On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 6:32 PM, Mateusz Paprocki mateusz.paprocki@continuum.io wrote:

Hi,

Actually, it’s not an no-op, but user’s setting gets overridden by axis’ heuristics.

Mateusz

On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 5:37 PM, Harshit Khare khareharshit@gmail.com wrote:

I’m trying to recreate a plot using Bokeh, hit some issues. Original plot, attempted plot, code attached.

Issues:

  1. Legend is appearing in the middle of the plot even though I tried adding it below, and setting its location to ‘bottom_center’. Not working.

Off-view legends currently don’t work very well. This is fixed in https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh/pull/5349, which will be part of upcoming bokeh 0.12.4 release. Then you will have to change Legend.location to “center” (instead of “bottom_center”).

  1. Major labels on the y-axis are not getting aligned to the left. I tried putting major_label_text_align=‘left’.

Apparently major_label_text_align is a no-op. We have to implement it.

  1. When I try and add three labels above the plot, instead of two, the plot collapses. This issue is referenced here: https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh/issues/4561 . But the solution listed there of putting title=None is not solving the issue here.

If the workaround doesn’t work, then we just need to fix this issue (not an easy one).

Mateusz

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

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Bryan
BryanDec 07, 2016   #4

also just to note, "bottom_center", etc. applies to legends *inside* the "plot area". If you want a legend outside the plot area, you have to follow

  Appearance — Bokeh 3.3.2 Documentation

Thanks,

Bryan

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On Dec 7, 2016, at 12:44 PM, Mateusz Paprocki <mateusz.paprocki@continuum.io> wrote:

Hi,

On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 6:32 PM, Mateusz Paprocki <mateusz.paprocki@continuum.io> wrote:
Hi,

On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 5:37 PM, Harshit Khare <khareharshit@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm trying to recreate a plot using Bokeh, hit some issues. Original plot, attempted plot, code attached.

Issues:
1) Legend is appearing in the middle of the plot even though I tried adding it below, and setting its location to 'bottom_center'. Not working.

Off-view legends currently don't work very well. This is fixed in https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh/pull/5349, which will be part of upcoming bokeh 0.12.4 release. Then you will have to change Legend.location to "center" (instead of "bottom_center").

2) Major labels on the y-axis are not getting aligned to the left. I tried putting major_label_text_align='left'.

Apparently major_label_text_align is a no-op. We have to implement it.

Actually, it's not an no-op, but user's setting gets overridden by axis' heuristics.

Mateusz

3) When I try and add three labels above the plot, instead of two, the plot collapses. This issue is referenced here: https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh/issues/4561 . But the solution listed there of putting title=None is not solving the issue here.

If the workaround doesn't work, then we just need to fix this issue (not an easy one).

Mateusz

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

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Harshit_Khare
Harshit_KhareDec 08, 2016   #5

Mateusz, thanks for your response.

Bryan, I tried all permutations of legend location and add_layout positions but none of them seemed to work, but I get your point and hopefully, this will be fixed in 0.12.4 and solve my problem. Thanks!

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On Thursday, December 8, 2016 at 12:42:46 AM UTC+5:30, Bryan Van de ven wrote:

also just to note, “bottom_center”, etc. applies to legends inside the “plot area”. If you want a legend outside the plot area, you have to follow

    [http://bokeh.pydata.org/en/latest/docs/user_guide/styling.html#outside-the-plot-area](http://bokeh.pydata.org/en/latest/docs/user_guide/styling.html#outside-the-plot-area)

Thanks,

Bryan

On Dec 7, 2016, at 12:44 PM, Mateusz Paprocki mateusz....@continuum.io wrote:

Hi,

On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 6:32 PM, Mateusz Paprocki mateusz....@continuum.io wrote:

Hi,

On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 5:37 PM, Harshit Khare khareh...@gmail.com wrote:

I’m trying to recreate a plot using Bokeh, hit some issues. Original plot, attempted plot, code attached.

Issues:

  1. Legend is appearing in the middle of the plot even though I tried adding it below, and setting its location to ‘bottom_center’. Not working.

Off-view legends currently don’t work very well. This is fixed in https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh/pull/5349, which will be part of upcoming bokeh 0.12.4 release. Then you will have to change Legend.location to “center” (instead of “bottom_center”).

  1. Major labels on the y-axis are not getting aligned to the left. I tried putting major_label_text_align=‘left’.

Apparently major_label_text_align is a no-op. We have to implement it.

Actually, it’s not an no-op, but user’s setting gets overridden by axis’ heuristics.

Mateusz

  1. When I try and add three labels above the plot, instead of two, the plot collapses. This issue is referenced here: https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh/issues/4561 . But the solution listed there of putting title=None is not solving the issue here.

If the workaround doesn’t work, then we just need to fix this issue (not an easy one).

Mateusz

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

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