tight_layout puts axes title below twiny xlabel

plt.title("title")
plt.gca().twiny().set_xlabel("xlabel")
plt.tight_layout()

matplotlib 1.5.0.

Is this a regression from 1.4.3?

I suspect the problem here is that the title is attached to the first axes, but the axis label is attached to the twin.

1.4.3 suffers from the same issue.

I know it maybe annoying to users, but I am currently much more worried about regressions (ie things we broke between 1.4.3 and 1.5.0) than long standing bugs.

This is going to be a tough one to solve. Technically speaking, there is no
bug here. tight_layout() is doing exactly what it is supposed to do. The
problem is that the xlabel text object has a position relative to the
x-axis, while the title has a position defined relative to the edge of the
subplot region. These two positions are only loosely related to each other,
and there is certainly no constraint system in place to enforce relative
positions from each other.

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I know it maybe annoying to users, but I am currently much more worried
about regressions (ie things we broke between 1.4.3 and 1.5.0) than
long standing bugs.

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This is wrapped up in the fact that we need a layout engine. There was a
prototype using a linear constraint solver a while ago, but the hard part
is going to be (automatically?) generating the constraints.

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This is going to be a tough one to solve. Technically speaking, there is no
bug here. tight_layout() is doing exactly what it is supposed to do. The
problem is that the xlabel text object has a position relative to the
x-axis, while the title has a position defined relative to the edge of the
subplot region. These two positions are only loosely related to each other,
and there is certainly no constraint system in place to enforce relative
positions from each other.

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wrote:

I know it maybe annoying to users, but I am currently much more worried
about regressions (ie things we broke between 1.4.3 and 1.5.0) than
long standing bugs.

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Re: "I suspect the problem here is that the title is attached to the first axes, but the axis label is attached to the twin."
Actually not, if you move the first axes' xlabel and xticks to top (gca().xaxis.set_{label,ticks}_position("top")) you suffer from the same problem.

@tacaswell

@tacaswell The hard are not the constraits, that mostly busy-work. The hard part
is including it in a backwards compatible way. Also there is still the same chicken-egg problem which
is also faced by tight_layout that some variables are only known after drawn (labelsizes, ticklabelsizes).

@jklymak

@jklymak Sorry I ended up not having much time so far to look at your geometry manager PR, but perhaps this issue may be of interest for you...

I've not dared look at twinx/twiny yet, but if they are rationally constructed then this shouldn't be very hard.

OK, I got twinx/twiny to work, but it doesn't fix this problem because #9082 doesn't handle things below the axes level, and title placement etc is handled at a level below that.

I'll note that this problem is much more simple than this makes it seem, and has nothing to do with twiny other than twiny puts the xlabel at the top. And it has absolutely nothing to do w/ tight_layout.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
fig, ax = plt. subplots()
ax.xaxis.tick_top()
ax.xaxis.set_label_position('top')

ax.set_xlabel('Parent xlabel')
ax.set_title('Hello')

Well, I actually did need labels both on top and on bottom (for separate axes).

Sure, its still an issue.

I'm just saying tight_layout and twiny are red-herrings; the real problem is that title doesn't care/know that there is an x-axis right there.

A geometry manager at the sub-axes level would be great too, and probably manageable for xlabel, ylabel, and title. Once we get into tick labels and ticks themselves things get hairy. And some seem to think layout managers would be good for placing legends, etc around data. That hurts my head. Not saying its not all possible, but just getting subplot placement sorted out was tough, and that should be the easy job...

Closing as a duplicate of #1415

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