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        "\n# Align y-labels\n\nTwo methods are shown here, one using a short call to `.Figure.align_ylabels`\nand the second a manual way to align the labels.\n\n.. redirect-from:: /gallery/pyplots/align_ylabels\n"
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        "import matplotlib.pyplot as plt\nimport numpy as np\n\n\ndef make_plot(axs):\n    box = dict(facecolor='yellow', pad=5, alpha=0.2)\n\n    # Fixing random state for reproducibility\n    np.random.seed(19680801)\n    ax1 = axs[0, 0]\n    ax1.plot(2000*np.random.rand(10))\n    ax1.set_title('ylabels not aligned')\n    ax1.set_ylabel('misaligned 1', bbox=box)\n    ax1.set_ylim(0, 2000)\n\n    ax3 = axs[1, 0]\n    ax3.set_ylabel('misaligned 2', bbox=box)\n    ax3.plot(np.random.rand(10))\n\n    ax2 = axs[0, 1]\n    ax2.set_title('ylabels aligned')\n    ax2.plot(2000*np.random.rand(10))\n    ax2.set_ylabel('aligned 1', bbox=box)\n    ax2.set_ylim(0, 2000)\n\n    ax4 = axs[1, 1]\n    ax4.plot(np.random.rand(10))\n    ax4.set_ylabel('aligned 2', bbox=box)\n\n\n# Plot 1:\nfig, axs = plt.subplots(2, 2)\nfig.subplots_adjust(left=0.2, wspace=0.6)\nmake_plot(axs)\n\n# just align the last column of Axes:\nfig.align_ylabels(axs[:, 1])\nplt.show()"
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        ".. seealso::\n    `.Figure.align_ylabels` and `.Figure.align_labels` for a direct method\n    of doing the same thing.\n    Also :doc:`/gallery/subplots_axes_and_figures/align_labels_demo`\n\n\nOr we can manually align the axis labels between subplots manually using the\n`~.Axis.set_label_coords` method of the y-axis object.  Note this requires\nwe know a good offset value which is hardcoded.\n\n"
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        ".. admonition:: References\n\n   The use of the following functions, methods, classes and modules is shown\n   in this example:\n\n   - `matplotlib.figure.Figure.align_ylabels`\n   - `matplotlib.axis.Axis.set_label_coords`\n   - `matplotlib.axes.Axes.plot` / `matplotlib.pyplot.plot`\n   - `matplotlib.axes.Axes.set_title`\n   - `matplotlib.axes.Axes.set_ylabel`\n   - `matplotlib.axes.Axes.set_ylim`\n\n"
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