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Tool for creating plot legends

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg124902] Tool for creating plot legends
• From: Chris Young <cy56 at comcast.net>
• Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:38:38 -0500 (EST)
• Delivered-to: l-mathgroup@mail-archive0.wolfram.com

This will handle the general case of combined plots and let you 
substitute in different function lists and colors, as well as move the 
legend around and changing the spacings in the legend. Shouldn't be too 
hard to adapt it to more general styles for the plotting and legend. 
The Legend package won't automatically pick up the styles from the plot 
except in the case where there's only one kind of plot. So in this 
case, one should enter all the style definitions into a variable to be 
shared by the plots and by the Legend.

http://home.comcast.net/~cy56/Mma/LegendTool.nb
http://home.comcast.net/~cy56/Mma/LegendToolPic.png

Chris Young
cy56 at comcast.net


DynamicModule[
 {
  graphic,    (* for the graphics in the legend *)

  colors = {Red, Yellow, Green},
  fncs = {Sin, Cos, Log},
  plotNames = {"sine", "cosine", "log"}
  },

 graphic[c_] := Graphics[{
    c,
    Line[{{-1, 0}, {1, 0}}],
    PointSize[Medium], Point[{0, 0}]
    }];

 Manipulate[
  ShowLegend[
   Show[

    Plot[
     Table[f[x], {f, fncs}] // Evaluate,
     {x, 0, 10},
     PlotStyle -> colors
     ],

    ListPlot[
     Table[
      {x, f[x]}, {f, fncs},
      {x, 0, 10, 0.5}
      ],
     PlotStyle -> colors,
     PlotMarkers -> Graphics[{PointSize[Medium], Point[{0, 0}]}]
     ],

    PlotRange -> {{0, 10}, {-2, 2}},
    AspectRatio -> 4/10
    ],

   {
    Table[{graphic[colors[[i]]], plotNames[[i]]}, {i, 3}],

    LegendPosition -> {1.1, -.4},
    LegendSize -> {xLnth, yLnth},
    ShadowBackground -> LightGray,
    LegendSpacing -> spacing,
    LegendTextOffset -> {textOffX, textOffY},
    LegendTextSpace -> textSp,
    LegendLabelSpace -> labelSp,
    LegendBorderSpace -> borderSp
    }
   ],
  {{xLnth, 0.75}, 0, 2, 0.25},
  {{yLnth, 0.5}, 0, 2, 0.25},
  {{spacing, 0}, -2, 2, 0.25},
  {{textOffX, 0}, -1, 1, 0.25},
  {{textOffY, -0.25}, -1, 1, 0.25},
  {{textSp, 0.5}, -1, 2, 0.25},
  {{labelSp, 0}, -1, 2, 0.25},
  {{borderSp, 0.5}, 0, 2, 0.25}
  ]
 ]