Thread Subject:

How to increase vertical spacing between subplots?

 I need to increase the vertical spacing because the title of one plot
overwrites the xlabel of the plot above it in my 7 rows x 2 columns
figure.

I assume there's an object property that needs to be modified, but I
can't find it.

Any help would be appreciated - thanks in advance.


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Jim

Jim O'connor wrote:
>
> I need to increase the vertical spacing because the title of one plot
> overwrites the xlabel of the plot above it in my 7 rows x 2 columns
> figure.
>
> I assume there's an object property that needs to be modified, but I
> can't find it.
>
> Any help would be appreciated - thanks in advance.
>
> --
> Jim
have you tried:

orient tall

(and then printing the figure)

?

Matthias

Jim O'connor wrote:
>
> I need to increase the vertical spacing because the title of one plot
> overwrites the xlabel of the plot above it in my 7 rows x 2 columns
> figure.
>
> I assume there's an object property that needs to be modified, but I
> can't find it.
>
> Any help would be appreciated - thanks in advance.
>
> --
> Jim

My experience is that the problem is caused by the subplot default to
normalized coordinates. That's fine when the figure window is large
relative to the number of subplots, but works poorly otherwise (because
the fonts don't scale). The same problem occurs if you start with a 2x2
subplot in a normal figure window, then resize it to be small (try it
and see what happens).

To get around this you can specify the sizes and positions of the axes
yourself, leaving enough space for the titles and labels. It's not
difficult (as long as you are well versed in handle graphics), but
probably not worth the trouble unless you plan to use the same plot
format repeatedly.

Larry

I ended up copying the toolbox version of subplot.m to
~/matlab/bin/subplot2.m, then changed the variable PERC_OFFSET_B in
subplot2.m from

PERC_OFFSET_B = PERC_OFFSET_L % = 2*0.09
to
PERC_OFFSET_B = 2*0.15;

which fixed the problem. It's a quick-fix kludge, not a general
solution, but it works.



Jim O'connor <joconnor@ftw.mot.com> writes:

> I need to increase the vertical spacing because the title of one plot
> overwrites the xlabel of the plot above it in my 7 rows x 2 columns
> figure.
>
> I assume there's an object property that needs to be modified, but I
> can't find it.
>
> Any help would be appreciated - thanks in advance.
>
>
> --
> Jim

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Jim