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Inset
The pygmt.Figure.inset
method adds an inset figure inside a larger
figure. The method is called using a with
statement, and its
position
, box
, offset
, and margin
parameters are set. Plotting
methods called within the with
statement are applied to the inset figure.
![inset](../../_images/sphx_glr_inset_001.png)
import pygmt
fig = pygmt.Figure()
# Create the primary figure, setting the region to Madagascar, the land color
# to "brown", the water to "lightblue", the shorelines width to "thin", and
# adding a frame
fig.coast(region="MG+r2", land="brown", water="lightblue", shorelines="thin", frame="a")
# Create an inset, setting the position to top left, the width to 3.5 cm, and
# the x- and y-offsets to 0.2 cm. The margin is set to 0, and the border is
# "gold" with a pen size of 1.5p.
with fig.inset(position="jTL+w3.5c+o0.2c", margin=0, box="+p1.5p,gold"):
# Create a figure in the inset using coast. This example uses the azimuthal
# orthogonal projection centered at 47E, 20S. The land color is set to
# "gray" and Madagascar is highlighted in "red3".
fig.coast(
region="g",
projection="G47/-20/?",
land="gray",
water="white",
dcw="MG+gred3",
)
fig.show()
Total running time of the script: (0 minutes 0.484 seconds)