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Documented the incompatibility of shrink and cax kwargs in colorbar.
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navdeep rana committed Oct 17, 2017
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to which the colorbar is attached; but it is a manual method requiring
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I'd actually drop this part. *shrink* means to shrink for many reasons. I routinely shrink my colorbars for esthetic reasons that have nothing to do w/ the size of the mappable. I don't see why this note is here.

some trial and error. If the colorbar is too tall (or a horizontal
colorbar is too wide) use a smaller value of *shrink*.
Further *shrink* and *cax* kwargs are incompatible with each other and shrink
applies only if the colorbar makes its own Axes by sharing space from the Axes
in which the mappable resides.

For more precise control, you can manually specify the positions of
the axes objects in which the mappable and the colorbar are drawn. In
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