Legend with many labels can't fit in output

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Hello,

I have a plot with many lines, and a legend with labels for all those lines. Here is an example output.

using CairoMakie

set_theme!(theme_latexfonts())
update_theme!(
    palette=(color=ColorSchemes.glasbey_category10_n256.colors,),
    ScatterLines=(cycle=Cycle(:color),)
)
function main()
    f = Figure()
    ax = Axis(f[1, 1])

    for i in 1:30
        lines!(ax, 0:127, rand(128), label=string(i))
    end

    Legend(f[1, 2], ax, "Some Title", framevisible=false)
    ax.xlabel = "x-axis"
    ax.ylabel = "y-axis"

    resize_to_layout!(f)
    save("mwe.png", f)
end

main()

mwe
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I have tried the resize_to_layout!() and unfortunately it does not work, In python I could add the legend as an artist and the final output would automatically resize itself to fit in the whole legend. Is there a similar way to do it in Makie?

2

Add tellheight = true to the legend attributes. But maybe nbanks = 2 would look better.

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Thank you, I should have seen that earlier. And yes, nbanks=2 does help a lot!