# Way to prevent ylabel covering yticks with pgf plots.jl?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/way-to-prevent-ylabel-covering-yticks-with-pgf-plots-jl/16204>\
**Category:** Visualization\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [October 11, 2018, 9:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/way-to-prevent-ylabel-covering-yticks-with-pgf-plots-jl/16204 "2018-10-11T21:25:44Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 11, 2018, 9:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/way-to-prevent-ylabel-covering-yticks-with-pgf-plots-jl/16204/1 "2018-10-11T21:25:44Z")

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I keep running into an issue with ylabels covering yticks:

 ![31%20PM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/e/b/eb647ae74a5bc6f921f59f165cfdb341a49dd646.png)

What’s the easiest way to avoid this? I tried `left_margin`, but that didn’t work

// is there a way to just put the ylabel vertically above the top tick? (where “Proteus” is written)