Overlapping x-axis labels - any way to avoid this?

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Biochemist
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Overlapping x-axis labels - any way to avoid this?

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Hi,

I sometimes have relatively long names for the groups represented by the indvidual bars in a bar graph. This leads to long x-axis labels that overlap, which does not look good.

Is there anything I can do about this (except for shortening the group names)? Something like a line break? I haven't found an option to do this. Do I have any control over the looks of axis labels in jamovi? In my specific case, the bar graph resulted from a contingency table analysis - just in case this matters.
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reason180
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Re: Overlapping x-axis labels - any way to avoid this?

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In jamovi, the only changes you can make to a plot are changes to the color theme, or changes to the variable names and labels (via the spreadsheet). If you have a good pdf editor, you could use jamovi to save the plot as a pdf and then do some limited, manual editing using your pdf editor. (The same sort of thing could done with an svg file and svg editor.) However, these methods won't let you do things like adjust the axis range.
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Re: Overlapping x-axis labels - any way to avoid this?

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OK, I see. Thanks for your answer.
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jonathon
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Re: Overlapping x-axis labels - any way to avoid this?

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yeah, shorten the names of your variables is another approach.

jonathon
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