Re: [Matplotlib-users] xtick labels size and positions

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Pawel <pa...@gm...> wrote:

> **
> Thanks Ben. Your solution for setting different fontsizes worked like a
> charm!
>
>
Glad it worked.



> For the other question, what I meant by padding was the distance of the
> tick label from the axis. This is what I set with the following command:
>
> matplotplib.pyplot.rc(('xtick.major','ytick.major'), pad=10)
>
> so that the pad of the label from the axis is set to 10. Now what if I
> want to set the pad of just one of the xtick lables to a different value?
>
>
Ah.  You could change the x/y position of the Text object.  However, a
trick that would be significantly easier and maybe "good enough" would be
to simply include a '\n' character at the beginning of that label's string.

Ben Root