Questions tagged [legend]
a legend in a graph helps the reader determine the correspondence between line style and data values
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Aligning legend with figure width memoir class
I'm using the memoir class. Let's say I have a figure like this.
\begin{figure}[htbp!]
\centering
\caption{Super-cool Figure}
\label{fig:super_cool}
\includegraphics[width = 0.7\...
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shared legend position is not changed
\documentclass{article}
% Standard package includes
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage{latexsym}
% For proper rendering and hyphenation of words containing Latin characters (including in bib files)
\...
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Weird issue with pgfplots legend deleting curly brace
When compiling the following
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.18}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[domain=-1:1]
\...
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Problem when using cases environment in pgfplots legend
I noticed that if I use cases from package amsmath in a pgfplots legend, the legend box does not contain the whole text. See the MWE.
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{...
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Adding legends to diagram lines on top of a graphics
I want to display my new results on top of a figure reproduced from an old paper.
I experienced two major issues.
1.a/ If is use shifting and use
\addlegendentry{My second}
for a second time, nothing ...
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Package PGFPLOTS legend empty entry shift to left
I made a plot with 2 y-axis on the same x-axis. One one the left, one on the right.
Thats the Code I used:
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{siunitx}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usetikzlibrary{...
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How to merge legends of two y-axes in pgf plot?
I want to merge the two legends of this pgf plot, so that the second legend "This is legend two" is within the first legend box.
Here is the MWE:
\documentclass[
12pt,
a4paper,
]{scrbook}
\...
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Creating a Common Legend for Subfigures with subcaption Package in LaTeX
I'm working on a LaTeX template, the elsarticle class from Elsivier, where I have two subfigures created using the subcaption package. I came across this answer which provides a solution for having a ...
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How to add color and legends to bar chart
I am trying to create a simple chart using the code below:
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[
symbolic x coords={
Integrated Circuits,
Transistors,
Capacitors,
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Place the text of a legend entry underneath the corresponding line in pgfplots
I have the following code, which brings me to the figure in the first image.
Now I would like to place the text (in this example: exp(x) and x²+2x+1) of the legend entries underneath the red and blue ...
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Rotate the symbol will cause it in legend not space rightly in 'pgfplots' in LaTeX
There is a symbol as triangle in pgfplots. As sometimes need the inverted triangle, I rotate it 180 degrees. It will work all right in the figure but not in the legend.
\documentclass{article}
\...
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Adding additional text in a legend
I am learning Tikz/Pgfplots and I am trying to recreate the following graph
So far I have been able to come up with the following:
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[axis lines = center, axis ...
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How can I change the image size in a legend on pgfplots?
I need the small picture as large as the word.But I didn't find how.
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How Can I change the legend positon
I would like to change the position of the legend, modifying the current position by placing it below and centered between the graphic (c) and (d).
\begin{figure}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{...
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How to change color of text in legend of pie chart in overleaf
I would like to change the color of the text 7.91-6.33 in figure A's legend and the text 73169 - 60901 in figure B's legend to red.
Please any help would be really appreciated.
\begin{figure}[htbp]
\...
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Adding legends to a pgf plot with table
I need to add a legend to each color in the plot. Like, inserting a box inside the plot that has the color and its name:
How can I do that?
MWE:
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{subcaption}
\...
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Placing legend in upper left corner of bar graph
Want to place the legend in the upper left corner of the bar graph. Following is my code
\documentclass[lettersize,journal]{IEEEtran}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usetikzlibrary{patterns}
\pgfplotsset{
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How can I plot piece-wise function with legend using tikz? [closed]
I have a piece-wise function (actually, some points connected with a line in a region) and I want to add a legend. My problem is that if I add several \addplot segments, the \addlegendentry displays ...
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cell color in a table -- add legend somewhere under the table to explain the meaning
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}
\caption{a table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c c c c}
\cellcolor{blue!=10} 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 \\
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In pgfplots how to set the length of the legend
I have made a graph in LaTeX using pgfplots, but when I include a system of equations into the legend, the legend length becomes too small. And I can't seem to increase the legend length.
My code:
\...
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How to fix the caption spacing in tblr and talltblr environments from the tabularray package?
The spacing between the text and the table legend is different between the tblr and talltblr environments. In MWE this difference can be observed.
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[...
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Remove unwanted entries from Legend in pgfplot
I am trying to combine a box-plot with the actual points to show distribution. Furthermore, the marks used for the points depend on whether the treatment it represents was positive (marked x) or ...
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Unknown error using legend entries
I'm having trouble with my tikzpicture. I have the following code:
\begin{center}
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale = 1]
\begin{axis}[
...
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Handling with customlegend style
How can I do so the size of the customlegend box adapts to its content?
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.16}
\usepgfplotslibrary{...
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pgfplots legend marker scale
The legend of my scatter plot is not picking up the sizes of the markers that I'm using. I'm being extreme here so that the difference is obvious. I'm hoping to understand how to get the sizes to be ...
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Alignment of pgfplot inline legend in body text and caption
I would like to use pgfplots' "legend to name" feature to reference the (named) legend in the caption of the respective figure environment.
Additionally, it would be nice to be able to put ...
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Multiple text alignments in TikZ legend entries
I am looking for a simple way to have multiple alignments in a TikZ legend.
I have the following code which produces a TikZ figure:
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\...
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Select from a set of inputs_ Legend line style_ Grid style legend
I have a \foreach loop in the following macro to create a legend box for my radar chart. First, how can I make legend to be in two columns and two rows? Second, I have used the 4th input of the \...
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How to fix Undefined control sequence \caption@setlabelseparator with TexLive 2022?
I am trying to use again the answer from this question of mine from 2019 (Misplaced \noalign. \captionsetup ->\noalign when using \captionsetup inside memoir \legend command) with Tex Live 2022, ...
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pgfplots, distinct legend for each groupplot
I'm trying to have distinct legends placed below each of the groupplots. I'm using the following code:
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{groupplot}[
group style={
group name=my plots,
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pgfplots - legend entries not recognised as array when passed as a defined variable through keyval
I am plotting a graph in pgfplots, and would like the legend entries to be passed as a defined variable. In the code below, the first example does this, but does not work (all entries come through on ...
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How to get "inner" auto-positionning of a TikzPicture legend?
EDIT 2 (Feb 20): New question (hopefully clearer)
With pgfplots it's possible to obtain "inner" and "outer" figure legend (see Paul Gessler's answer) as:
I would like to achieve ...
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Multiple Linear Regressions, Legend does not work [duplicate]
I am working on a diagram with tikz. There are two linear regressions in the diagram, but \addlegendentry does yield weird results for the second plot. Instead of the red star (which i would have ...
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Pie chart with legend position south
I tried the legend to the south code from this question (see code below): Pie chart with joined legend position
but it unfortunately does not work.
If i change yshift to a fixed value it work. BUT ...
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tikz pgf - Use multiple images for one legendentry
I have a plot in which I am showing experimentally obtained data and different models for the data. In order to keep the legend clean I want to summarise slightly different versions of the same model ...
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Tikz plot: legend and markings
I need to
put a mark on the x-axis at the point of maximum to indicate x=75.
place a legend in the top left corner (above the graph to indicate "$\mu = 5$").
How can I do that with this ...
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How to add a legend next to a figure in latex
I created a 4-subfigures figure:
\begin{figure*}
\begin{subfigure}[b]{0.4\linewidth}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{1.png}
\caption{1}
\label{fig:1}
\end{subfigure}
\hfill
\begin{subfigure}[...
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Legend-cell alignment in pgfplots
Consider the LaTeX code
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz,pgfplots}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[legend columns=2,
legend style={at={(0.5,1.02)},anchor=south,...
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Legend with marks and loosely dashed
I have a problem with the visibility of the mark denoted by X in my legend, using a loosely dashed line. How I can make it more clear, e.g. by shifting the dashes a little to the right? (so that the ...
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Splitting a graph legend into two legends
Im trying to split a single long legend into two legends. However, the way i did it just filled in the entire line. The is what im trying to achieve: (I think it would be better if those icons were ...
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Global Legend for Different Plots
I have several axis environments that form an array of plots. Sometimes these different axes environments have the same data plotted, other times they have different data sets plotted. I would like to ...
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Adjusting axes so graphs and legend do not overlap
I would like to add a legend to a graph, and automatically adjust the graphs so the legend won't overlap with them. The legend must stay inside the axes area. Currently it looks like this:
And I ...
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Mathtools and PGFPlots conflict: `centercolon` and `addlegendentry` do not compile
I am using \mathtoolsset{centercolon} in a document, together with PGFPlots. I noticed that if I insert a colon in the \addlegendentry command, the document keeps compiling forever and never produces ...
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Change font size in legend [closed]
I have the following tikz plot figure.
I want the legend to have a smaller text.
I would prefer to just scale it by 0.5.
Is there any easy way to do that?
Thanks in advance!
\documentclass[10pt,...
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PGFPlot, Legend line and legend text isnt on the same level [closed]
I have the following code:
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[legend style={at={(0.5,-0.1)},anchor=north}]
\addplot {x};
\addlegendentry{$x$}
\addplot {x^2};
\...
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Pgfplots and Groupplot: Legend Management
I have the following MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[dvipsnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage{pgf,pgfplots,pgfplotstable}
\pgfplotsset{compat=newest}
\usepgfplotslibrary{colormaps}
\usepgfplotslibrary{...
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How can I create a legend of an envelope plot?
I making envelope plots which shows the minimum median max of my values. but when i try to create a legend it doesnt pick the median which has the right color as seen in the image below:
MWE for your ...
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PGFPlots: How do I add a legend to a plot drawn manually (not using \addplot)?
I'm making a plot using rectangles that I drew manually,
instead of using the standard plot types defined in PGFPlots.
Here is an MWE:
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{...
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No colors in marks on pgfplots legend, using groupplots and standalone? [closed]
I'm trying to make an image with 2 groupplots, and a single legend.
Issue #1 should be evident: the legend is showing up to the right of the plots, not below them. < This has been solved using a ...
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Automatic Report Printer: Handle long technical expressions in TOC and legend entries
I'm currently programming a automatic printer with Latex for some technical reports. The whole printer can be controlled and launched from an external programm which provides csv-files and Data which ...
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