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first tick label on categorical x-axis misplaced when labels are rotated

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Versions

hvplot      0.8.1
holoviews   1.15.1
pandas      1.5.0
python      3.9.13
jupyterlab  3.4.5

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Description

The first tick label on a categorical x-axis is not correctly placed horizontally when tick labels are rotated at an angle (not 0 or 90 degrees). It is much closer to the second tick label than it should be. I noticed that while working with a larger set of labels. This can also be easily seen with a smaller set of labels by making the plot very narrow. I have tested bar, area, line, and scatter. They all have that issue.

Example

import hvplot.pandas
import pandas as pd


df = pd.DataFrame([["Steven Spielberg",    5],
                   ["Alfred Hitchcock",    4],
                   ["Stanley Kubrick",     4],
                   ["Billy Wilder",        4],
                   ["John Huston",         3]],
           columns=['Director',  'Frequency'])

df.hvplot.bar(rot=45, x='Director', y='Frequency', width=150)

Stack traceback

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Issue Analytics

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Created a year ago
Comments:6 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

2reactions

jbednarcommented, Oct 11, 2022

The Bokeh issue suggests it’s fixed in bokeh 3.0, which is imminent, though it may be some time before holoviz tools support the big changes that 3.0 brings.

1reaction

jbednarcommented, Oct 11, 2022

Ah, the ever-ambiguous “this” was fixed. 😕

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