How to avoid overlapping patches and texts?

[AndreyIvanoff]

Hello,

and thank you for usefull library.

My problem is: when I try increase width of patche witch you are using in demo-example I receive overlapping. Please see your code with the minor modifications and the result. All texts are in left path of figure without overlapping with blue rectangle - is what I want. What I do wrong?

from matplotlib import patches
d={'Afrikaans': 1.93, 'Amharic': 44.56, 'AncientGreek': 33.06, 'Arabic': 65.9, 'Armenian': 20.16,
'Bambara': 0.13, 'Basque': 20.4, 'Belarusian': 26.28, 'Breton': 53.21, 'Bulgarian': 25.77, 'Buryat': 0.4,
'Cantonese': 4.4, 'Catalan': 19.14, 'Chinese': 0.19, 'Coptic': 11.67, 'Croatian': 24.72, 'Czech': 36.6,
'Danish': 16.38, 'Dutch': 21.72, 'English': 4.9, 'Erzya': 40.76, 'Estonian': 36.45,
'Faroese': 14.19, 'Finnish': 17.88, 'French': 4.67,
'Galician': 17.52, 'German': 21.45, 'Gothic': 34.23, 'Greek': 34.27,
'Hebrew': 28.75, 'Hindi': 1.4, 'Hungarian': 27.91, 'Indonesian': 2.6,
'Irish': 87.93, 'Italian': 22.75, 'Japanese': 0.0, 'Kazakh': 0.89, 'Komi': 19.34, 'Korean': 0.35, 'Kurmanji': 0.61,
'Latin': 27.5, 'Latvian': 24.22, 'Lithuanian': 28.8, 'Maltese': 7.26, 'Marathi': 2.64,
'Naija': 2.29, 'NorthSami': 21.18, 'Norwegian': 19.43, 'OldChurchSlavonic': 37.51, 'OldFrench': 20.14,
'Persian': 0.99, 'Polish': 30.55, 'Portuguese': 12.84, 'Romanian': 29.0, 'Russian': 29.15,
'Sanskrit': 20.09, 'Serbian': 24.1, 'Slovak': 33.18, 'Slovenian': 31.72, 'Spanish': 19.09, 'Swedish': 18.84, 'SwedishSign': 19.23,
'Tagalog': 98.18, 'Tamil': 2.95, 'Telugu': 0.85, 'Thai': 0.06, 'Turkish': 6.38,
'Ukrainian': 26.38, 'UpperSorbian': 22.03, 'Urdu': 0.74, 'Uyghur': 3.58, 'Vietnamese': 1.78}
langnameGroup={"AncientGreek":"Indo-European", "Arabic":"Semitic", "Basque":"isolate", "Belarusian":"Indo-European-Baltoslavic", "Bulgarian":"Indo-European-Baltoslavic", "Cantonese":"Sino-Austronesian", "Catalan":"Indo-European-Romance", "Chinese":"Sino-Austronesian", "Coptic":"Afroasiatic", "Croatian":"Indo-European-Baltoslavic", "Czech":"Indo-European-Baltoslavic", "Danish":"Indo-European-Germanic", "Dutch":"Indo-European-Germanic", "English":"Indo-European-Germanic", "Estonian":"Agglutinating", "Finnish":"Agglutinating", "French":"Indo-European-Romance", "Galician":"Indo-European-Romance", "German":"Indo-European-Germanic", "Gothic":"Indo-European-Germanic", "Greek":"Indo-European", "Hebrew":"Semitic", "Hindi":"Indo-European", "Hungarian":"Agglutinating", "Indonesian":"Sino-Austronesian", "Irish":"Indo-European", "Italian":"Indo-European-Romance", "Japanese":"Agglutinating", "Kazakh":"Agglutinating", "Korean":"Agglutinating", "Latin":"Indo-European-Romance", "Latvian":"Indo-European-Baltoslavic", "Lithuanian":"Indo-European-Baltoslavic", "Norwegian":"Indo-European-Germanic", "OldChurchSlavonic":"Indo-European-Baltoslavic", "Persian":"Indo-European", "Polish":"Indo-European-Baltoslavic", "Portuguese":"Indo-European-Romance", "Romanian":"Indo-European-Romance", "Russian":"Indo-European-Baltoslavic", "Sanskrit":"Indo-European", "Slovak":"Indo-European-Baltoslavic", "Slovenian":"Indo-European-Baltoslavic", "Spanish":"Indo-European-Romance", "Swedish":"Indo-European-Germanic", "Tamil":"Dravidian", "Turkish":"Agglutinating", "Ukrainian":"Indo-European-Baltoslavic", "Urdu":"Indo-European", "Uyghur":"Agglutinating", "Vietnamese":"Sino-Austronesian",'Afrikaans':'Indo-European-Germanic', 'SwedishSign':'Indo-European-Germanic', 'Kurmanji':'Indo-European', 'NorthSami':'Agglutinating', 'UpperSorbian':"Indo-European-Baltoslavic", 'Buryat':'Agglutinating', 'Telugu':'Dravidian', 'Serbian':"Indo-European-Baltoslavic", 'Marathi':'Indo-European','Naija':"Indo-European-Germanic", "OldFrench":"Indo-European-Romance", "Maltese":"Semitic", "Thai":"Sino-Austronesian","Amharic":"Afroasiatic", 'Erzya': 'Agglutinating', 'Faroese':"Indo-European-Germanic", 'Tagalog':"Sino-Austronesian", 'Bambara':'Niger-Congo', 'Breton':"Indo-European", 'Armenian':"Indo-European", 'Komi': 'Agglutinating'}
groupColors={"Indo-European-Romance":'brown',"Indo-European-Baltoslavic":'purple',"Indo-European-Germanic":'olive',"Indo-European":'royalBlue',"Sino-Austronesian":'limeGreen', "Agglutinating":'red'}
df = pd.Series(d)
c=[groupColors.get(langnameGroup[label],'k') for label in df.index]
fig, aa = plt.subplots(figsize=(7, 9))
#aa.axes.get_xaxis().set_visible(False)
aa.set_xlim(-10, 0.1)
aa.set_ylim(-1, 101)
aa.scatter([0 for _ in df], df, c=c, alpha=0.5, edgecolors='none') 
aa.spines['left'].set_visible(False)
aa.spines['top'].set_visible(False)
#aa.spines['bottom'].set_visible(False)
aa.yaxis.set_label_position('right') 
aa.yaxis.set_ticks_position('right')
plt.tight_layout()
patch = patches.Rectangle((-0.9, 0), 0.9, 100, fill=True, alpha=0.5) # We add a rectangle to make sure the labels don't move to the right 
aa.add_patch(patch)
texts=[]
np.random.seed(0)
for label, y in zip(df.index, df):
    texts+=[aa.text(-.1+np.random.random()/1000, y, label, # A small random shift prevents labels which have exactly the same coordinates from being stuck together
                                                           # (not a problem in this example really, but wanted to mention this possibility)
                    color=groupColors.get(langnameGroup[label],'k'), fontsize=8)] 

adjust_text(texts, [0 for _ in df], df,  ha='right', va='center', add_objects=[patch],
            expand_text=(1.05, 1), # We want them to be quite compact, so reducing expansion makes sense
            force_text=(0.75, 0), force_objects=(1, 0), #With default forces it takes a very long time to converge, but higher values still produce very nice output
            autoalign='xy', only_move={'points':'x', 'text':'x', 'objects':'x'}
            , lim = 1000
           )         

[Phlya]

Mh I suspect if the label is fully inside the patch from the beginning it might cause issues...