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Annotation with units#
The example illustrates how to create text and arrowannotations using a centimeter-scale plot.
This example requiresbasic_units.py
frombasic_unitsimportcmimportmatplotlib.pyplotaspltfig,ax=plt.subplots()ax.annotate("Note 01",[0.5*cm,0.5*cm])# xy and text both unitizedax.annotate('local max',xy=(3*cm,1*cm),xycoords='data',xytext=(0.8*cm,0.95*cm),textcoords='data',arrowprops=dict(facecolor='black',shrink=0.05),horizontalalignment='right',verticalalignment='top')# mixing units w/ nonunitsax.annotate('local max',xy=(3*cm,1*cm),xycoords='data',xytext=(0.8,0.95),textcoords='axes fraction',arrowprops=dict(facecolor='black',shrink=0.05),horizontalalignment='right',verticalalignment='top')ax.set_xlim(0*cm,4*cm)ax.set_ylim(0*cm,4*cm)plt.show()