Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlit.pyplot.xtick lablel alignment withsubscripts

> From: Andre' Walker-Loud [mailto:wal...@gm...] 
> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 22:19
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Trying to tune alignment of xtick labels.

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> Try as I might, I can not figure out how to get these to 
> align how I want (I have tried all the options from 
> verticalalignment=option in the plt.xticks() command.

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Does the following do what you want?

    plt.xticks(x_dat, x_label, va='baseline')
    plt.gca().xaxis.set_tick_params(pad=16)