Re: [Matplotlib-users] xlabel vertical positioning

[Ryan M. <rm...@gm...>]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Thomas Robitaille <
tho...@gm...> wrote:

> 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()
> >
>

There's now a documented way to do this in SVN HEAD, by passing labelpad as
an argument to the xlabel/ylabel functions.

Ryan

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