Ted Drain wrote: > Can any of this be extended to make the auto-ticking algorithms smart > enough to not overlap tick mark text fields so much? We get this all > the time with date plots and it drives people nuts. This doesn't address that particular issue -- but I'd like to get to it at some point. BTW - have you tried using figure().autofmt_xdate()? It will rotate the x-axis label to 30 degrees, which often helps with date plots. Not the whole solution, but may work in a bind... Cheers, Mike -- Michael Droettboom Science Software Branch Operations and Engineering Division Space Telescope Science Institute Operated by AURA for NASA