Automatic handling of misplaced axis title

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hello,
I often encounter the problem that by default my axis title is covering by the axis labels or is cut by the margin. Is there a way to handle that more gracefully, and in an automatic way? I am aware of the methods SetTitleOffset and SetPadLeftMargin and the like, but I was wondering if there were a way to retrieve enough information to properly position the title once the plot has been drawn, something like (for a y-axis label)

  1. Get the leftmost label character
  2. Add an offset so that the title is far enough from the labels
  3. Redefine left margin so that 1)+2) falls within the margin limit
  4. Add title

I think it is essentially 1) That I do not know how to handle.
best,
johann

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There is no way to do it as you are asking. But if your histogram always need more space on the left margin, for instance, you can do a global set using gStyle->SetPadLeftMargin().