Custom text location

[jonas-eschle]

Currently, some of the functions (such as mplhep.lhcb.text) take a loc keyword that has to be a number, hardcoded. For the LHCb-style, these are all left-aligned.

How should new locations be added? Or is there the possibility to specify an arbitrary location?

[andrzejnovak]

I think you can add another number. Replacing these with keywords would be fine for me as well, though I'd prefer it to not get too verbose.

[jonas-eschle]

When you say "adding another number", do you mean to hardcode it inside the plotting function? That means there is no way for a user to choose an arbitrary location? I .e. could loc allow for, say, a tuple of x, y coords? Or something else, more mpl standardized maybe?

[andrzejnovak]

Oh, I see. I think I misunderstood. I'd be ok with making loc also take an (x,y) tuples. The initial idea here was to offer a set of predefined locations that are commonly used and hard-code them to prevent the situation where eg every "CMS Simulation" label had a slightly different size ratio, a slightly different gap between words, or different spacing from the label to the x and y-axis. I assumed that's close to 100% of use cases, but if not I have no problem with that being extended.