.. DO NOT EDIT.
.. THIS FILE WAS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED BY SPHINX-GALLERY.
.. TO MAKE CHANGES, EDIT THE SOURCE PYTHON FILE:
.. "auto_examples\matplotlib\draw_span.py"
.. LINE NUMBERS ARE GIVEN BELOW.

.. only:: html

    .. note::
        :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note

        Click :ref:`here <sphx_glr_download_auto_examples_matplotlib_draw_span.py>`
        to download the full example code

.. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title

.. _sphx_glr_auto_examples_matplotlib_draw_span.py:


draw a span
===========

.. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 5-26



.. image-sg:: /auto_examples/matplotlib/images/sphx_glr_draw_span_001.png
   :alt: draw span
   :srcset: /auto_examples/matplotlib/images/sphx_glr_draw_span_001.png
   :class: sphx-glr-single-img





.. code-block:: default

    from pylab import *
    from matplotlib import lines
    from matplotlib.transforms import IdentityTransform
    fig, (ax1,ax2,ax3,ax4) = subplots(4,1, figsize=(4,4))
    subplots_adjust(left=0.2)
    def draw_span(ax1, ax2, label, allow_for_text=10, allow_for_ticks=40):
        x1,y1 = ax1.transAxes.transform(r_[0,1])
        x2,y2 = ax2.transAxes.transform(r_[0,0])
        x1-=allow_for_ticks
        x_text = x1-allow_for_text
        x2-=allow_for_ticks
        x1,y1 = fig.transFigure.inverted().transform(r_[x1,y1])
        x_text,_ = fig.transFigure.inverted().transform(r_[x_text,0])
        x2,y2 = fig.transFigure.inverted().transform(r_[x2,y2])
        lineA = lines.Line2D([x1,x2],[y1,y2],
                linewidth=3, color='r', transform=fig.transFigure,
                clip_on=False)
        text(x_text, (y2+y1)/2, label, va='center', ha='right', rotation=90, transform=fig.transFigure, color='r')
        fig.add_artist(lineA)
    draw_span(ax1,ax3,"a label")
    show()


.. rst-class:: sphx-glr-timing

   **Total running time of the script:** ( 0 minutes  0.085 seconds)


.. _sphx_glr_download_auto_examples_matplotlib_draw_span.py:

.. only:: html

  .. container:: sphx-glr-footer sphx-glr-footer-example


    .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python

      :download:`Download Python source code: draw_span.py <draw_span.py>`

    .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter

      :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: draw_span.ipynb <draw_span.ipynb>`


.. only:: html

 .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature

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