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[Matplotlib-users] How to control space between ylabel and yaxis (Was: how to control space between ylabel and yticklabel?)

[Mark B. <ma...@gm...>]

I think LABELPAD is the padding between the label and the tick.
What I would like to control is the distance between the label and the
y-axis itself.
This is desired when you do multiple subplots and you want all ylabels to
align nicely; they may differ
depending on the numbers along the yticks.

Any ways to control this?

Thanks, Mark


From: jetxee <je...@gm...>

This should help:
> gca().yaxis.LABELPAD=20 # or the value you like
>

Re: [Matplotlib-users] How to control space between ylabel and yaxis (Was: how to control space between ylabel and yticklabel?)

[jetxee <je...@gm...>]

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:53:52 +0200, "Mark Bakker" <ma...@gm...>:

> I think LABELPAD is the padding between the label and the tick.

I did not think about it. Probably you are correct. Yet it still helps
if you have big/multiline axis label.

> What I would like to control is the distance between the label and the
> y-axis itself.
> This is desired when you do multiple subplots and you want all ylabels to
> align nicely; they may differ
> depending on the numbers along the yticks.

Well, I see the problem.

One solution is to use custom Formatter for yticks/xticks (e.g.
FixedFormatter or FormatStrFormatter) to ensure that tick labels have
the same width/height (printed with the same precision or padded with
spaces). User's Guide explains how to use formatters.