x/y/title label padding feature?

[komodovaran]

Is there such a feature/way, to easily adjust the padding of all labels (relative to their axes), rather than fiddling around with positions of the individual elements?

[piermorel]

Hi, I'm currently using xlabel() and ylabel() to generate the x/y labels and as far as I know these don't allow for an easy way to change position. If they are just text objects after all there might be something to do though.

Titles corresponding to facet_grid() however are created with text() commands (lines 569 and 590 in draw.m) so position should be adjustable by changing these calls. You are welcome to add the feature and do a pull request with a 'title_padding' option in set_text_options() that allows to change that in a nice way.