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Description
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Bug summary
horizontalalignment = 'left' aligns the title on the right, horizontalalignment = 'right' aligns a short title on the left, horizontalalignment = 'right' displaces a longer title on the far left
Code for reproduction
# Left alignment test, short title
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(9,4))
ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
fig.suptitle('This figure suptitle should be on the left', horizontalalignment = 'left')
ax.set_title('This axis title should be on the left', loc='left');
fig.savefig('left_align.png')
# Right alignment test, short title
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(9,4))
ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
fig.suptitle('This figure suptitle should be on the right', horizontalalignment = 'right')
ax.set_title('This axis title should be on the right', loc='right');
fig.savefig('right_align.png')
# Right alignment test, longer title
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(9,4))
ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
fig.suptitle('This figure suptitle should be on the right but it is far left', horizontalalignment = 'right')
ax.set_title('This axis title should be on the left', loc='left')
fig.savefig('far_left.png');Actual outcome
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Left alignment test, short title
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Right alignment test, short title
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Right alignment test, longer title
Expected outcome
The following code manually sets the figure title at the expected position:
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(9,4))
ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
fig.suptitle('This figure suptitle is long but it is manually positioned', x = 0.38)
ax.set_title('This axis title should be on the left', loc='left')
fig.savefig('manual_pos.png');Which gives:
Matplotlib version
- Operating system: Windows
- Matplotlib version: 2.1.2 and 2.2.3
- Matplotlib backend: agg
- Python version: 3.6.4
- Jupyter version: 4.4.0