Re: [Matplotlib-users] xlabel vertical positioning

[Thomas R. <tho...@gm...>]

Thanks! I could not find any documentation relating to this, so I was  
wondering whether it would be better to go with a well-documented  
function such as text or figtext? What would be best to use?

Thomas

On 28 Apr 2009, at 22:27, Yong-Duk Jin wrote:

> You can use 'LABELPAD' to adjust label position.
> e.g.
>
> import pylab
> hAxes = pylab.axes()
> pylab.xlabel('test')
> hAxes.xaxis.LABELPAD = 0
> pylab.show()
>
> --
> Yong-Duk Jin
>
> On Tuesday 28 April 2009 14:08:50 Thomas Robitaille wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is probably a simple question, but what is the best way to
>> control the vertical positioning of the x-axis label? I tried:
>>
>> import matplotlib
>> matplotlib.use('Agg')
>> import matplotlib.pyplot as mpl
>>
>> fig = mpl.figure()
>> ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
>> ax.set_xlabel("Hello",position=(0.5,-0.2))
>> fig.savefig('test.png')
>>
>> But this doesn't work. Strangely, changing the first position element
>> does shift the label left and right, but changing the second does not
>> move the label vertically.
>>
>> I'm using matplotlib 0.98.5.2
>>
>> Thanks for any advice!
>>
>> Thomas
>>
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