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Re: Problems with subplots/Overlapping title/axislabels
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Ben Abbott |
Subject: |
Re: Problems with subplots/Overlapping title/axislabels |
Date: |
Wed, 16 Mar 2016 14:28:36 -0400 |
> On Mar 16, 2016, at 12:27, Phtagen <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> bpabbott wrote
>>> On Mar 16, 2016, at 5:34 AM, Phtagen <
>
>> phtagen@
>
>> > wrote:
>>>
>>> bpabbott wrote
>>>>> On Mar 15, 2016, at 11:35 AM, Phtagen <
>>>
>>>> phtagen@
>>>
>>>> > 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
>>>>>
>>>>> <http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/file/n4675515/Test1.jpg>
>>>>
>>>> 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
>
> Hi Ben,
>
> thanks for your advice. You mean I have to change the scale of the axis and
> then move them to zero for instance; by set(gca,'xaxislocation', 'zero').
>
> This works fine for me, but how can I switch the box off? The command
> set(gca,'box', 'off') doesn't work, nothing changes.
You'll want to change the axes "position" property.
Ben