about axes properties

[Michael Goffioul]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Francesco Potorti` <Potorti at isti.cnr.it> wrote:
> In the 3.0 manual, I read exactly the same description for both the
> "position" and "outerposition" properties.
>
> Also, while plotting two graphs in two subplots, I see that I can move
> them around using "outerposition", while changing "position" apparently
> has no effect.

This is a limitation of the gnuplot backend (I guess you're using that
one). In practice, both should have an influence on the axes actual
position. "Position" is the position of the axes box, while "outerposition"
is the bounding box of the complete axes system, including labels,
title, ticks... When you deal with subplot, you usually want to set
the axes outerposition, because you're then sure that the axes won't
overlap each other.

Michael.