Re: subplot titles and labels overlap

[Ben Abbott]

On Sep 14, 2011, at 1:47 PM, Philip Hahn wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> I have 3 subplots and the titles/labels overlap in the plot output and when 
> printed. Is there any way to specify additional padding to avoid this 
> overlap? Sample code below:
> 
> thanks,
> 
> philip
> 
> (create any function x,y,t with abscissa dx,dy,dt)
> 
> % plot
> 
> subplot(3,1,1);
> 
>     p=plot(dx, x);
>     set(gca,'FontSize',18);
>     set(p,'LineWidth',2);
>     axis([0,0.05]);
>     xlabel('x/D');
>     ylabel('R(x,x+r)');
> %    title(strcat('Two-Point Correlation ', char(label(ind)), ' 
> protuberance.'));
> 
> 
> subplot(3,1,2);
> 
>     p=plot(dy, y);
>     axis([-0.06,0.06]);
>     set(gca,'FontSize',18);
>     set(p,'LineWidth',2);
>     xlabel('y/D');
>     ylabel('R(y,y+r)');
> %    title(strcat('Two-Point Correlation ', char(label(ind)), ' 
> protuberance.'));
> 
> 
> subplot(3,1,3);
> 
>     p=plot(dt(1:50), t(1:50));
> 
>     set(gca,'FontSize',18);
>     set(p,'LineWidth',2);
>     axis([0,0.0001]);
>     xlabel('t');
>     ylabel('R(t,t+\tau)');
> %    title(strcat('Autocorrelation ', char(label(ind)), ' protuberance.'));
> 
>     print('-dpng',strcat('TPCxyz',char(prefixy(ind)),'.png'));
> end

You can adjust the position of each axes by modifying their "position" property.

If you are running Octave 3.4.x, this is done automatically using the native 
backend. Before running your script just ....

        graphics_toolkit fltk
        close all

... and then run your plot commands.

Ben