Re: [ROOT] y-title out of sight

From: Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Date: Fri Sep 19 2003 - 18:49:39 MEST


Hi,

Change the pad left margin from the default value (10%) to eg 15%
  gPad->SetLeftMargin(0.15);

Rene Brun

Ahmet Sedat Ayan wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a macro which creates a "square" canvas on which I plot a
> histogram and write axis titles, some text etc..
> When I make the axislabel and axistitles relatively big (0.035 or bigger)
> to be able to scale-down in a postscript document later on, the "y-title"
> goes out of sight on the canvas, then I correct this by grabbing and
> moving the whole thing in the canvas by mouse.
> SetTitleOffset does not help much either because,  with title and label
> sizes this big, when I decrease the offset , title and label overlaps and
> becomes unreadable.
> 
> To me it looks like, ROOT plots everthing un-evenly (rather slighly
> shifted to the left of the canvas).
> 
> Is there any other way of correcting this problem?
> 
> Thanks a lot for the comments...
> ahmet.
> 
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