x,y ticklabel too close

Hello list,

For the following plotI using a large font for the tick-label that causes the first x,y tick-labels to overlap

http://yfrog.com/5zimageykp

for now I’m padding spaces to “fix” the plot, like this:

newtick = ["-10 ", "-5 ", "0 ", "5 ", "10 "]
pos =[-10, -5, 0, 5, 10]
yticks(pos, newtick)

However I was wondering if there is any automatic way to avoid or fix this overlap.

Thanks, Filipe

Hi,

11/02/10 @ 12:40 (-0500), thus spake Filipe Pires Alvarenga Fernandes:

Hello list,

For the following plotI using a large font for the tick-label that causes
the first x,y tick-labels to overlap

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for now I'm padding spaces to "fix" the plot, like this:

newtick = ["-10 ", "-5 ", "0 ", "5 ", "10 "]
pos =[-10, -5, 0, 5, 10]
yticks(pos, newtick)

However I was wondering if there is any automatic way to avoid or fix this
overlap.

Not that I'm aware of, other than changing the font size, or
the axis limits.

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Thanks, Filipe

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The current matplotlib does not have any automatic way as far as I
know (any contribution will be appreciated).

On the other hand, instead of explicitly specifying the ticks and
ticklabels, you may try to reduce the number of ticks.

gca().xaxis.get_major_locator()._nbins=4

Regards,

-JJ

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On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Filipe Pires Alvarenga Fernandes <ocefpaf@...287...> wrote:

Hello list,

For the following plotI using a large font for the tick-label that causes
the first x,y tick-labels to overlap

ImageShack - Best place for all of your image hosting and image sharing needs

for now I'm padding spaces to "fix" the plot, like this:

newtick = ["-10 ", "-5 ", "0 ", "5 ", "10 "]
pos =[-10, -5, 0, 5, 10]
yticks(pos, newtick)

However I was wondering if there is any automatic way to avoid or fix this
overlap.

Thanks, Filipe

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This is also not automatic, and maybe more work than it's worth, but
could it be helpful to use spines, as shown in the example down the
page a bit here:

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/whats_new.html

It seems there would be no way for the numbers to overlap if spines
were used this way.

Che

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On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Filipe Pires Alvarenga Fernandes <ocefpaf@...287...> wrote:

Hello list,

For the following plotI using a large font for the tick-label that causes
the first x,y tick-labels to overlap

ImageShack - Best place for all of your image hosting and image sharing needs

for now I'm padding spaces to "fix" the plot, like this:

newtick = ["-10 ", "-5 ", "0 ", "5 ", "10 "]
pos =[-10, -5, 0, 5, 10]
yticks(pos, newtick)

However I was wondering if there is any automatic way to avoid or fix this
overlap.

Thanks, Filipe

Thanks for all the suggestions,

Spines did the trick.

JJ, I would like to be able to contribute more, but my python knowledge is very limited and I’m still a very Matlab oriented person.

Anyways, maybe people here might be interested in my recent adventure trying to learn python. I converted the CSIRO seawater library from matlab to python.

http://www.cmar.csiro.au/datacentre/ext_docs/seawater.htm

I know that this is specific for oceanographers, but I saw some of us in this list.

Thanks again, this list helped my a lot.

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On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Filipe Pires Alvarenga Fernandes <ocefpaf@…287…> wrote:

Hello list,

For the following plotI using a large font for the tick-label that causes the first x,y tick-labels to overlap

http://yfrog.com/5zimageykp

for now I’m padding spaces to “fix” the plot, like this:

newtick = ["-10 ", "-5 ", "0 ", "5 ", "10 "]
pos =[-10, -5, 0, 5, 10]
yticks(pos, newtick)

However I was wondering if there is any automatic way to avoid or fix this overlap.

Thanks, Filipe