Makie Uneven Legend Banks

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Hello,

Is it possible to have uneven number of elements in the banks of a Legend in Makie? Below is an MWE - the actual figure I need this for is crowded and I basically need two legend entries in bank 2 moved into bank 1.

Is that possible? Any ideas on how that could be specified?

In the MWE, how can I have legend entries for plots 1 to 4 in bank 1 and 5 to 6 in bank 2.

begin
    x = LinRange(0, 1, 100)
    y = x .^ 2
    fig = Figure()
    ax = Axis(fig[1, 1])
    for i = 1:6
        lines!(x, i .* y, label="plot $(i)")
    end
    axislegend(position=:lt, nbanks=2, framevisible=false)
    fig
end
2

Maybe like this?

begin
    x = LinRange(0, 1, 100)
    y = x .^ 2
    fig = Figure()
    ax = Axis(fig[1, 1])
    for i = 1:6
        lines!(x, i .* y, label="plot $(i)")
    end
    axislegend(position=:lt, nbanks=4, framevisible=false, orientation = :horizontal)
    fig
end

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Otherwise one could probably work with empty entries to shape the legend into more custom configurations

3

Do you have any examples handy of how this could be done?

Edit: Also, was just thinking. One way to accomplish this would be to allow users to specify number of entries per bank.

4

Like this:

begin
    x = LinRange(0, 1, 100)
    y = x .^ 2
    fig = Figure()
    ax = Axis(fig[1, 1])
    lins = map(1:6) do i
        lines!(x, i .* y)
    end
    plts = [lins[1:3]..., [], [], lins[4:6]...]
    labels = ["A", "B", "C", "", "", "D", "E", "F"]
    axislegend(ax, plts, labels; position=:lt, nbanks=2, framevisible=false)
    fig
end

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5

Thanks! Although now there are blanks. I was hoping they would be “skipped” so it would look something like this, and pretending that D is also excluded. (excuse the amateur paint skills :sweat_smile:) Hopefully that makes sense. Let me know if not and I will try to be clearer.

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6

The blanks were just for demonstration, but you can do any arrangement with that no?

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7

To get that, just add a single blank to the end.