# Understanding recipes in Plots.jl

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/understanding-recipes-in-plots-jl/1912>\
**Category:** Visualization\
**Tags:** question, plotting, recipe\
**Created:** [February 5, 2017, 3:13am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/understanding-recipes-in-plots-jl/1912 "2017-02-05T03:13:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 2

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**Author:** ![ChrisRackauckas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/chrisrackauckas/32/77_2.png) [@ChrisRackauckas](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ChrisRackauckas)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2017, 12:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/understanding-recipes-in-plots-jl/1912/21 "2017-10-17T12:40:14Z")

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No

[https://github.com/JuliaPlots/RecipesBase.jl/issues/15](https://github.com/JuliaPlots/RecipesBase.jl/issues/15)

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**Author:** ![ValdarT](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/valdart/32/24146_2.png) [@ValdarT](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ValdarT)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2017, 3:53pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/understanding-recipes-in-plots-jl/1912/22 "2017-10-17T15:53:57Z")

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Ok, thanks.

But any ideas how to get a global title?  
I understand it is not implemented yet in Plots (although planned). I can simulate it with creating a small subplot on top that plots an annotation but that creates the dependency on `@layout`.  
Does anyone have an idea how to simulate it in some other way (without creating a Plots dependency)?

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**Author:** ![anon61610682](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@anon61610682](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/anon61610682)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2017, 5:10pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/understanding-recipes-in-plots-jl/1912/23 "2017-10-17T17:10:49Z")

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Have you checked and tried the `layout` in the [documentation](http://docs.juliaplots.org/latest/attributes/)?

If you are not after some fancy layout as in your example, you can use something like `layout --> (2,2)` to _suggest_ a layout, which can be overridden later on by the user via the call `plot(..., layout = @layout [...])`.

I had a similar [issue](https://github.com/JuliaPlots/RecipesBase.jl/issues/14) back then, which was that easy to fix.

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**Author:** ![ValdarT](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/valdart/32/24146_2.png) [@ValdarT](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ValdarT)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2017, 5:50pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/understanding-recipes-in-plots-jl/1912/24 "2017-10-17T17:50:03Z")

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Yes, I’m aware of that. Unfortunately this doesn’t suffice for me (unless there is some other way of simulating a global title).

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**Author:** ![mkborregaard](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mkborregaard/32/556_2.png) [@mkborregaard](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mkborregaard)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2017, 7:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/understanding-recipes-in-plots-jl/1912/25 "2017-10-17T19:43:33Z")

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Global title is an open issue, just waiting for someone to want it enough to implement it.

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