Problem with xticklabel location when using 'YDir' reverse

I'm trying to represent an audiogram, but the xticklabel is always set on the axis when I use 'Ydir','reverse' property.

PS : the property 'tickdir' doesn't change anything.

for misenforme=1:1
    xaxistick=[250 500 750 1000 1500 2000 3000 4000 6000 8000];
    xaxislabel=["250" "500" "" "1000" "" "2000" "" "4000" "" "8000"];
    for f=1:length(Data.AudioT(1,:,1))-1;
        audiogramme_moyen(1,f)=round(mean(Data.AudioT(:,f,1)),1);
        audiogramme_moyen(2,f)=round(mean(Data.AudioT(:,f,2)),1);
        audiogramme_moyen(3,f)=round(std(Data.AudioT(:,f,1)),1);
        audiogramme_moyen(4,f)=round(std(Data.AudioT(:,f,2)),1);
    end
    semilogx(xaxistick,audiogramme_moyen(1,:),'-o','markeredgecolor','r','color','r'); hold on;
    semilogx(xaxistick,audiogramme_moyen(2,:),'-x','markeredgecolor','b','color','b');
    set(gca,'xtick',xaxistick,'xticklabels',xaxislabel,'xaxislocation','top','ydir','reverse','ytick',-10:10:120);
    xlim([250 8000]); ylim([-10 120]); grid on;
end

[darova]

Look HERE

Answer 1

[Mohammad Sami]

You can try and change the position property of the xlabel.

a = gca;
pos =  a.XLabel.Position;
pos(2) = pos(2) - 10; % adjust as desired. 
a.XLabel.Position = pos;

[Johann LAHAI]

Thank you for your answer. But it doesn't work. The property doesn't fit and it changes only the axis' title, not the xticklabel.

[Mohammad Sami]

My mistake. I manage to recreate your issue.

It appears as soon as you set axis property XScale to log, the X tick labels somehow moves downwards as shown in your picture. If you set it to linear it will move back up. It seems that semilogx function will automatically set XScale to log.

The setting for TickDir 'in' seems to move the x tick labels to just above the grid line, while setting it to out, seems to move it just under the grid line.

If you want to use the scale, you might need to play around with the font size to make it look nice. Or you can adjust the x-axis limit to start from 0 instead of 250, to allow room for the label.

Alternatively instead of setting semilogx to plot the data, you can try plotting log(x) instead and set the tick labels as follows, using XScale as linear.

xaxistick= log([250 500 750 1000 1500 2000 3000 4000 6000 8000]);
xaxislabel=["250" "500" "" "1000" "" "2000" "" "4000" "" "8000"];
plot(xaxistick,audiogramme_moyen(1,:),'-o','markeredgecolor','r','color','r'); hold on;
plot(xaxistick,audiogramme_moyen(2,:),'-x','markeredgecolor','b','color','b');
set(gca,'xtick',xaxistick,'xticklabels',xaxislabel,'xaxislocation','top','ydir','reverse','ytick',-10:10:120);
xlim([250 8000]); ylim([-10 120]); grid on;