Re: [Matplotlib-users] label adjustment near plot origin

[Darren D. <dd...@co...>]

On Monday 29 August 2005 11:03 am, si...@sc... wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've a stubborn problem with labels near the origin of my pylab plots,
> where the lowest tick label on the y-axis ends up touching the leftmost
> tick label on the x-axis. Now, I can certainly tweak these manually with
> xticks and yticks, but is there any automatic way to make this happen? More
> generally, is there a way to specify "breathing room" distance between the
> first/last tick mark and the beginning/end of the axis? Or to increase the
> distance between label and tick mark?
>
> Apologies if these are FAQs: I've looked everywhere I can think of at the
> moment, and am now officially stuck :-)

Try increasing the tick.major.pad in your rc settings (and also tick.minor.pad 
if needed).

Darren