Increase line separation in matplotlib annotation text

Question

fig.text(0.6, 0.15,
         'Line 1\n'
         'Line 2\n'
         'Line 3')

In matplotlib is there a way to increase line spacing between 2 lines in the command above? I tried inserting an extra \n but that makes the line separation too wide.

Answer 1

With each .text() statement, optional parameter linespacing will set the vertical line spacing equal to the multiple values of the font size. For example,

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

fig, ax = plt.subplots()
for ea in range(5):
    fig.text(0.18 + 0.15*ea, 0.15,
             'Line 1\n'
             'Line 2\n'
             'Line 3', color='b', \
             linespacing = 1+ea)
plt.show()

The resulting plot is: