Thread: [Matplotlib-users] wrapping y axis tick labels?

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

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 10:55 PM, C M <cmp...@gm...> 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

On 21/07/2012 05:15, Benjamin Root wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 10:55 PM, C M <cmp...@gm...> 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.

For the OP an example is here 
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/barchart_demo2.html

>
> Cheers!
> Ben Root
>
>
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Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.

You might want to look at the python textwrap module.  That can take
your labels and automatically wrap them at a certain column width.  See
(in addition to the official python docs)
http://www.doughellmann.com/PyMOTW/textwrap/

Jon

On Fri, 2012-07-20 at 23:55 -0400, C M 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
> 
> 
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