Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ pgfplots | Move Legend outside Plot Area

[baxy77bax]

I realized that even if I install and try to compile with pgfplots 1.5.1 on my 2011 latex (Ubuntu 11.10) it still cannot move legend with a following pgf key: Update: this does not work

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\begin{document}

\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[
        legend pos=outer,
        xlabel=$x$,
        ylabel=$y$]
    \addplot[smooth,mark=*,blue] plot coordinates {
        (0,2)
        (2,3)
        (3,1)
    };
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

Error: ! Package pgfkeys Error: I do not know the key '/tikz/legend pos' and I am going to ignore it. Perhaps you misspelled it


This does!(with every version)

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\begin{document}

\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[
        xlabel=$x$,
        ylabel=$y$]
    \addplot[smooth,mark=*,blue] plot coordinates {
        (0,2)
        (2,3)
        (3,1)
    };
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

However, if i apply the same principle on Ubuntu 10.4 it works! So what i did is updated the latex 2009 to 2011 on my Ubuntu machine (this means update pgfplots from 1.3 to 1.5.1) and both sources work

does anyone has an idea why ??

baxy

[localghost]

Section 4.8.5 of the pgfplots manual shows which positions are accepted by the legend pos option. Make sure that you use the recent version of the package. Add the \listfiles command as very first line to your example and search the log file for the list of used files to find out which version of the package is really used.


Thorsten