On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 10:55 PM, C M <cmpyt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> How possible would it be to wrap y axis tick labels after a certain
> text length? I have a horizontal bar plot where some bars' labels are
> too long and therefore cut off. I can scrunch the width of the whole
> plot to accommodate them, but I'd much rather wrap long text and allow
> a little more space to accommodate two lines. For examples:
>
> I'd like to go from this:
>
> a short axis label | ======================
>
> A very long axis label that gets cut off | =============
>
>
> To this:
> a short axis label | ======================
>
> A very long axis label | =============
> that gets cut off
>
>
> Is this possible or has it ever been done?
>
> Thanks,
> Che
>
>
Not automatically, but you can always manually break up a line of text with
a '\n' in the string. Automatic/intelligent line wrapping has always been
a requested feature, but would be very difficult to implement correctly.
Therefore, the recommendation is for manual usage of newlines.
Cheers!
Ben Root
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