Re: [Matplotlib-users] Strange behaviour of ytitle()

[John H. <jdh...@ac...>]

>>>>> "Nicolas" == Nicolas Girard <nic...@ne...> writes:

    Nicolas> Hi all, I find ytitle() to behave quite strangely ; the
    Nicolas> first link points to a figure to each left subplot of
    Nicolas> which I used

    Nicolas>   ylabel(labl)

    Nicolas> and on the figure pointed by the second link I used

    Nicolas>   text(-0.07,0.5,labl,verticalalignment='center',
    Nicolas> rotation='vertical',transform=gca().transAxes,clip_on=False)


    Nicolas> http://nicolasgirard.nerim.net/ytitle.jpg
    Nicolas> http://nicolasgirard.nerim.net/text.jpg


    Nicolas> from these 2 samples it seems like ytitle()'s behaviour
    Nicolas> is odd, or at least not optimal. What do you think ?

Which backend are you using? It could be a backend specific bug.  From
the fact that you are making jpg images, my guess is you are using GTK
or WX.  Unless you have good reason not to, I would advise you to use
GTKAgg/WXAgg and output PNG.  PNG is a much better format for line art
and text.

Do you see the extra horizontal space in *Agg or PS backends?  Note
also that the space between the yticklabels and the ylabel is
controlled by ax.yaxis.LABELPAD, which defaults to 5 points.  Also,
are you using mathtext or rc.usetex=True?  

When reporting problems, it is very helpful to

  1) run your script with --verbose-helpful and report the output

  2) indicated any nondefault rc options (rc.usetex?)

  3) attach a standalone script we can run, if possible

This will save me a lot of guessing and typing.

Thanks!
JDH