On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 1:54 PM, David Warde-Farley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm using 'yticks' to set labels on the y axis, unfortunately they're > rather long strings occasionally. I was wondering if there's a way to > tweak the position of the axes within the plot, or better yet to have > it automatically push the axes over so that the entire labels fit (I > realize that's a tall order and would be quite happy with a way of > tweaking it manually).
If you are using subplots, you can move them over using fig = figure() fig.subplots_adjust(left=0.2) Alternatively, you can manually position your axes using the "axes" command rather than the "subplot" command, but the above will probably work for you. We've done some work on auto-layout but w/o much success. You can however, make 0.2 (or whatever) the default in your matplotlibrc file using the parameter (see http://matplotlib.sf.net/matplotlibrc). For example, you can set the "left" parameter there with:: figure.subplot.left : 0.125 # the left side of the subplots of the figure > Another (small, less important) question: is there a way to disable > the actual 'ticks' and just have labels present? The easiest way is to make them invisible:: ax = subplot(111) for line in ax.get_yticklines(): line.set_visible(False) JDH ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
