How to add captions in Makie?

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Hello guys,

I am just wondering how to add captions to figures in Makie, as highlighted in the following picture in red? I tried annotations() and text() but the effect are not satisfactory. Maybe I used them in a wrong way. Anyone may help me out? Thanks!

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This is a job for the document generator like LaTeX or Franklin.jl, not Makie.

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You can put a big block of text into a Figure with Label, but it doesn’t have text styling beyond a single font.

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We can use Unicode bold math letters :slight_smile:

f = Figure(resolution=(300, 200))
scatter(f[1,1], rand(5))
Label(f[2,1], "π—™π—Άπ—΄π˜‚π—Ώπ—² 𝟭  A few random values")
f

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How could we do that using text!() ? I wrote the following code under Julia 1.7.0 and
CairoMakie 0.6.6，the text is always in the plotting area.

using CairoMakie
CairoMakie.activate!()

function text_as_caption()
    lines(1:0.1:10, sin.(1:0.1:10))
    text!("This is caption.", position = (0, -10))
    current_figure()
end

text_as_caption()
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Thanks! This is cool!

I still have 2 more questions:

  1. how to make Figure 1 to be bold face?
  2. if I want the caption to be left-aligned, how could I do that? I tried in the following code under Julia 1.7.0 and CairoMakie 0.6.6, but the result is weird.
using CairoMakie
CairoMakie.activate!()

function text_as_caption()
    fig = Figure(resolution = (600, 600))
    lines(fig[1,1],1:0.1:10, sin.(1:0.1:10))
    Label(fig[2,1, TopLeft()], "This is a caption.",
        tellheight = true)
    current_figure()
end

text_as_caption()
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  1. You can use a website such as Bold and Italic Text Generators - 𝐁𝐨π₯𝐝 𝒂𝒏𝒅 π‘–π‘‘π‘Žπ‘™π‘–π‘π‘  to easily get bold text that you can copy-paste in your Julia program.

  2. You can use something like this:

    f = Figure(resolution=(300, 200))
scatter(f[1,1], rand(5))
Label(f[2,1], "π—™π—Άπ—΄π˜‚π—Ώπ—² 𝟭  Some data.", tellwidth=false, halign=:left)
f

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    If you want the text aligned with the left of the y tick labels, I don’t know how to do that but maybe @jules has an idea you can use alignmode as described in the manual:

    f = Figure(resolution=(300, 200))
scatter(f[1,1], rand(5), axis=(; alignmode=Outside()))
Label(f[2,1], "π—™π—Άπ—΄π˜‚π—Ώπ—² 𝟭  Random data.", tellwidth=false, halign=:left)
f

    image

    (I’m starting to think that Makie’s layouting capabilities are really awesome.)

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there’s Zalgo.jl as well. :sunglasses:

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Ah nice! but it seems it doesn’t support digits, e.g. boldsans("Figure 1") returns
"π—™π—Άπ—΄π˜‚π—Ώπ—² " ?

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Oh, good point. I will add them in the next release.

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Many thanks! it works fine for me :grinning:

I found Makie’s document is comprehensive but lack of organization with many details spattering around everywhere…

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Always good to make an issue if you don’t find something! It grows kind of organically, so sometimes the structure needs to be refactored