BTW: I tried to use set_position to change the position of the axes label as suggested by previous posting. No effect.
···
----- Original Message ----
> Hello,
>
> I am creating a plot with multiple y-axis (up to 6) and twinx
works pretty well. The problem is that there are too much wasted spaces used up
by the axes. Since I have multiple axes, it cuts into the amount of space
available for the plot area. I need to know how I can squeeze some spaces out of
the standard axes. First thing I discovered was that I can rotate the tick
labels to vertical by:
>
> plt.setp(ax.major_ticklabels, rotation="vertical")
>
> where ax is my y-axis. But then:
>
> (1) How to reduce the space between the tick and the axes label?
>
> First I tried to place the label on top but couldn't get that to work. Then I
tried to change the position property of the axis label object and that have no
effect. So, can somebody please tell me how I can do these 2 things?
>
> (2) How to avoid overlapping tick labels?
>
> With the way the standard x and y axis are drawn, after I do a vertical rotate
of the y tick labels, the first y tick label overlaps with the last x tick label
since they are both center aligned. Is there any way to change the alignment of
only the first and last tick labels of an axes (while keeping the rest center
aligned)?
>
> Thanks,
>
Are you using the axes_grid toolkit?
Standard matplotlib axis instance does not have "major_ticklabels"
attribute, while axes_grid axis does.
Please post a simple, but complete example that can be run and tested.
Regards,
-JJ
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On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 11:06 AM, <kc106_2005-matplotlib@...9...> wrote:
BTW: I tried to use set_position to change the position of the axes label as suggested by previous posting. No effect.
----- Original Message ----
> Hello,
>
> I am creating a plot with multiple y-axis (up to 6) and twinx
works pretty well. The problem is that there are too much wasted spaces used up
by the axes. Since I have multiple axes, it cuts into the amount of space
available for the plot area. I need to know how I can squeeze some spaces out of
the standard axes. First thing I discovered was that I can rotate the tick
labels to vertical by:
>
> plt.setp(ax.major_ticklabels, rotation="vertical")
>
> where ax is my y-axis. But then:
>
> (1) How to reduce the space between the tick and the axes label?
>
> First I tried to place the label on top but couldn't get that to work. Then I
tried to change the position property of the axis label object and that have no
effect. So, can somebody please tell me how I can do these 2 things?
>
> (2) How to avoid overlapping tick labels?
>
> With the way the standard x and y axis are drawn, after I do a vertical rotate
of the y tick labels, the first y tick label overlaps with the last x tick label
since they are both center aligned. Is there any way to change the alignment of
only the first and last tick labels of an axes (while keeping the rest center
aligned)?
>
> Thanks,
>
--
John Henry
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