How possible would it be to wrap y axis tick labels after a certain
text length? I have a horizontal bar plot where some bars' labels are
too long and therefore cut off. I can scrunch the width of the whole
plot to accommodate them, but I'd much rather wrap long text and allow
a little more space to accommodate two lines. For examples:
I'd like to go from this:
a short axis label | ======================
A very long axis label that gets cut off | =============
To this:
a short axis label | ======================
A very long axis label | =============
that gets cut off
Not automatically, but you can always manually break up a line of text with a ‘\n’ in the string. Automatic/intelligent line wrapping has always been a requested feature, but would be very difficult to implement correctly. Therefore, the recommendation is for manual usage of newlines.
Cheers!
Ben Root
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On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 10:55 PM, C M <cmpython@…287…> wrote:
How possible would it be to wrap y axis tick labels after a certain
text length? I have a horizontal bar plot where some bars’ labels are
too long and therefore cut off. I can scrunch the width of the whole
plot to accommodate them, but I’d much rather wrap long text and allow
a little more space to accommodate two lines. For examples:
I’d like to go from this:
a short axis label | ======================
A very long axis label that gets cut off | =============
To this:
a short axis label | ======================
A very long axis label | =============
that gets cut off
How possible would it be to wrap y axis tick labels after a certain
text length? I have a horizontal bar plot where some bars' labels are
too long and therefore cut off. I can scrunch the width of the whole
plot to accommodate them, but I'd much rather wrap long text and allow
a little more space to accommodate two lines. For examples:
I'd like to go from this:
a short axis label | ======================
A very long axis label that gets cut off | =============
To this:
a short axis label | ======================
A very long axis label | =============
that gets cut off
Is this possible or has it ever been done?
Thanks,
Che
Not automatically, but you can always manually break up a line of text with
a '\n' in the string. Automatic/intelligent line wrapping has always been
a requested feature, but would be very difficult to implement correctly.
Therefore, the recommendation is for manual usage of newlines.
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 10:55 PM, C M <cmpython@...287...> wrote:
Cheers!
Ben Root
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You might want to look at the python textwrap module. That can take
your labels and automatically wrap them at a certain column width. See
(in addition to the official python docs) http://www.doughellmann.com/PyMOTW/textwrap/
Jon
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On Fri, 2012-07-20 at 23:55 -0400, C M wrote:
How possible would it be to wrap y axis tick labels after a certain
text length? I have a horizontal bar plot where some bars' labels are
too long and therefore cut off. I can scrunch the width of the whole
plot to accommodate them, but I'd much rather wrap long text and allow
a little more space to accommodate two lines. For examples:
I'd like to go from this:
a short axis label | ======================
A very long axis label that gets cut off | =============
To this:
a short axis label | ======================
A very long axis label | =============
that gets cut off
Is this possible or has it ever been done?
Thanks,
Che
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