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tight_layout doesn't leave enough space between outwards ticks and axes title #5868
Description
All's in the title (notice how the descender of the "j" (also pretty bad with "g") runs into the outwards tick).
from pylab import *
rcParams["xtick.direction"] = "out"
gca().set_title("j" * 30)
tight_layout()
show()
1.5.0
master
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tacaswell commented on Jan 17, 2016
@mdboom Do you have a fix for this on an un-merged branch?
mdboom commented on Jan 18, 2016
#5683 (merged to 2.x) is somewhat related, but only includes the outward ticks in the tight layout calculation -- it doesn't address the tick-to-text relationship.
We don't really have any automatic tick-to-text work at present. The planned fix in #5774 is just to increase the distance between the spine and the tick labels in the defaults -- and styles with inward ticks would set the space to some lower value.
However, I wouldn't be opposed to automatically adding the tick length to the spine-to-tick label distance when the ticks are outward if we can find a clean way to do it that doesn't have negative consequences.
All this, like many other things, is really crying out for a proper constraint-based layout engine that we don't have. (And I often wonder how much brittle and hard-to-maintain ad hoc layout code would go away if we had a constraint engine)... but I digress...
tacaswell commented on Jan 18, 2016
https://github.com/nucleic/kiwi is said engine (and it is already shipped
by conda). The hard part is writing all of the rules...
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 1:45 PM Michael Droettboom notifications@github.com
wrote:
efiring commented on May 28, 2016
Fixed by #6468