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Many thanks!  The 'pad=25' property worked great.

I also tried prepending '\n' to the minor labels but it threw an error
-- I'll confess that I did not try very hard since 'pad=25' worked.

On 08/15/2014 05:28 PM, Thomas Caswell wrote:
> Use the `pad` property which sets how far the tick labels are from the axis.
> 
>     ax1.tick_params(axis='x',which='minor',bottom='off',top='off', pad=25)
> 
> iirc, the units on pad are font-points
> 
> Tom
> 
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Sterling Smith <sm...@fu...> wrote:
>> How about prepending '\n' to your minor labels?
>>
>> On Aug 15, 2014, at 1:38PM, Ted To wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to set two lines of xtick_labels But I can't figure out how
>>> to get them on separate lines.  These are for errorbars where I have two
>>> variables for each of four categories.  Using the following code, I'm
>>> able to create the attached figure.  How does one move the "minor"
>>> xtick_labels to a 2nd line?  A minor problem that maybe someone knows
>>> the answer to is, how do I increase the width of the x axis so that
>>> there is some space before and after the first and last ticks?
>>> (ax1.set_xlim(-.5,7.5) does not seem to work.)
>>>
>>> Many thanks,
>>> Ted
>>>
>>> fig,ax1=plt.subplots()
>>> ax1.errorbar(wageAllTypes.index,wageAllTypes['mean'],yerr=wageAllTypes['sd'],fmt='bo')
>>> xticks=[0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7]
>>> xticks_minor=[.5,2.5,4.5,6.5]
>>> ax1.set_xticks(xticks)
>>> ax1.set_xticks(xticks_minor, minor=True)
>>> ax1.set_xticklabels(['All Jobs','Job 1','Job 2','Job 3'],minor=True)
>>> ax1.set_xticklabels([r'$w$',r'$\xi$',r'$w$',r'$\xi$',r'$w$',r'$\xi$',r'$w$',r'$\xi$]')
>>>
>>> ax1.tick_params(axis='x',which='major')
>>> ax1.tick_params(axis='x',which='minor',bottom='off',top='off')
>>> ax1.set_ylabel(r'$\ln w$',ha='right',rotation='horizontal')
>>>
>>> ax2 = ax1.twinx()
>>> ax2.errorbar(xiAllTypes.index,xiAllTypes['mean'],yerr=xiAllTypes['sd'],fmt='ro')
>>> ax2.set_ylabel(r'$\xi$',ha='left',rotation='horizontal')
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