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Re: A nice and customized legend within Manipulate

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• Subject: [mg128576] Re: A nice and customized legend within Manipulate
• From: Alexei Boulbitch <Alexei.Boulbitch at iee.lu>
• Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 18:40:01 -0500 (EST)
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Hello

I need to create a cdf document as a standalone file that can be used in
a computer without Mathematica.   There is quite a few plots in the doc
and I need to add nice legends to it.   At first I tried the Legend
package but I found the result awful and worse than that it breaks the
standalone cdf (something to do with Needs and Get or the like).

It seems that I need to add a initialization code within Manipulate but
I have no idea on how to do it.  Could someone help me with an example,
please?

Finally, is there a simple way to create nice legends?  I saw several
posts on the web but could not gather much from them.  A nice and simple
example (for a newbie) will help me a lot.

Many thanks

Ed

Hi, Ed,

Try this:

Plot[{x, x^2}, {x, -10, 10}, PlotRange -> All,
 PlotStyle -> {Blue, Red},

 (* Here the legend starts*)
 Epilog ->
  Inset[Grid[{{Graphics[{Blue, Line[{{0, 0}, {1, 0}}]},
       ImageSize -> {20, 20}],
      Style["First line",
       14]}, {Graphics[{Red, Line[{{0, 0}, {1, 0}}]},
       ImageSize -> {20, 20}], Style["Second line", 14]}},
    Alignment -> {Left, Center}, Spacings -> 0], {5, 80}]
 (* The end of the legend *)
         ]

and this:

(* These are two lists to plot *)
lst1 = Table[{x, x}, {x, -10, 10, 0.5}];
lst2 = Table[{x, x^2}, {x, -10, 10, 0.5}];
(* End of lists definition *)

ListPlot[{lst1, lst2}, PlotRange -> All, PlotStyle -> {Blue, Red},

 (* Here the legend starts*)
 Epilog ->
  Inset[Panel[
    Grid[{{Graphics[{Blue, Point[{0, 0}]}, ImageSize -> {20, 20}],
       Style["First list", 14]}, {Graphics[{Red, Point[{0, 0}]},
        ImageSize -> {20, 20}], Style["Second list", 14]}},
     Alignment -> {Left, Center}, Spacings -> 0],
    ImageSize -> {105, 80}], {4, 85}]
 (* The end of the legend *)
         ]

Have fun, Alexei




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