Many thanks! The 'pad=25' property worked great. I also tried prepending '\n' to the minor labels but it threw an error -- I'll confess that I did not try very hard since 'pad=25' worked.
On 08/15/2014 05:28 PM, Thomas Caswell wrote: > 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 <smit...@fusion.gat.com> > 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') >>> <figure_1.png>------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Matplotlib-users mailing list >>> Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> Matplotlib-users mailing list >> Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
