Re: Problems with subplots/Overlapping title/axislabels

[Ben Abbott]

> On Mar 16, 2016, at 5:34 AM, Phtagen <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> bpabbott wrote
>>> On Mar 15, 2016, at 11:35 AM, Phtagen &lt;
> 
>> phtagen@
> 
>> &gt; wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi everybody,
>>> 
>>> I have some trouble with my octave 3.8.2 on mac (build with macports) and
>>> gnuplot. When I'm plotting some subplots, the title of e.g. the second
>>> subplot overlaps with the xlabel of the first subplot. Same is with the
>>> ylabel; when it is too long it overlaps with the yticks.
>>> 
>>> Can I change the position of the title/axislabels or can I change the
>>> distance between the subplots?
>>> 
>>> Thanks for helping
>>> 
>>> &lt;http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/file/n4675515/Test1.jpg&gt; 
>> 
>> This is a *feature* of using Gnuplot and maintaining compatibility with
>> Matlab’s axes positions.
>> 
>> You can attempt to correct the overlapping by manually changing the axes
>> positions.
>> 
>> Ben
> 
> Hi Ben,
> 
> thanks for your reply. 
> 
> I tried to do so with "title('name', 'position', [X, Y])" and with
> "ylabel('name', 'position', [X, Y])" but nothing changes.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Phtagen

Gnuplot controls the text object positions. However, you can modify the 
positions of the axes. Meaning in you move the top axes up and the bottom axes 
down you can avoid the overlap.

Ben