Re: [Matplotlib-users] Multiple lines of xtick_labels

[Thomas C. <tca...@gm...>]

Use the `pad` property which sets how far the tick labels are from the axis.

    ax1.tick_params(axis='x',which='minor',bottom='off',top='off', pad=25)

iirc, the units on pad are font-points

Tom

On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Sterling Smith <sm...@fu...> wrote:
> How about prepending '\n' to your minor labels?
>
> On Aug 15, 2014, at 1:38PM, Ted To wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to set two lines of xtick_labels But I can't figure out how
>> to get them on separate lines.  These are for errorbars where I have two
>> variables for each of four categories.  Using the following code, I'm
>> able to create the attached figure.  How does one move the "minor"
>> xtick_labels to a 2nd line?  A minor problem that maybe someone knows
>> the answer to is, how do I increase the width of the x axis so that
>> there is some space before and after the first and last ticks?
>> (ax1.set_xlim(-.5,7.5) does not seem to work.)
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> Ted
>>
>> fig,ax1=plt.subplots()
>> ax1.errorbar(wageAllTypes.index,wageAllTypes['mean'],yerr=wageAllTypes['sd'],fmt='bo')
>> xticks=[0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7]
>> xticks_minor=[.5,2.5,4.5,6.5]
>> ax1.set_xticks(xticks)
>> ax1.set_xticks(xticks_minor, minor=True)
>> ax1.set_xticklabels(['All Jobs','Job 1','Job 2','Job 3'],minor=True)
>> ax1.set_xticklabels([r'$w$',r'$\xi$',r'$w$',r'$\xi$',r'$w$',r'$\xi$',r'$w$',r'$\xi$]')
>>
>> ax1.tick_params(axis='x',which='major')
>> ax1.tick_params(axis='x',which='minor',bottom='off',top='off')
>> ax1.set_ylabel(r'$\ln w$',ha='right',rotation='horizontal')
>>
>> ax2 = ax1.twinx()
>> ax2.errorbar(xiAllTypes.index,xiAllTypes['mean'],yerr=xiAllTypes['sd'],fmt='ro')
>> ax2.set_ylabel(r'$\xi$',ha='left',rotation='horizontal')
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