Yticks on Makie plots get on top of the legend box

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Hello,

Using a customized set of attributes for my plots, I found that the yticks can appear on top of a legend box. For me, this behaviour is highly undesirable but I have not found a way to make the legend box appear on top of the ticks of the axes, so I would like to ask if someone knows hot to do it.

You can find a MWE here

using GLMakie

x = -π:0.1:π
y = sin.(x)

fig = Figure(fontsize = 35, font = "CMU", resolution = (1152, 864),
backgroundcolor = :white,figure_padding = (0, 40, 0, 20), linewidth = 5.0,)
ax = Axis(fig[1, 1], xtickalign = 1, xticksize = 20, ytickalign = 1, yticksize = 20)

lines!(ax, x, y, label="curve")
axislegend(ax; merge=true, position=:lt)
ylims!(-1.1, 1.1)

which produces the figure

test
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Oh that’s just a z value difference that could be tweaked better. I think if you translated the legend forward more it should cover the tick. Or you increase its margin attribute to push it away.

You can try translate!(ax.blockscene, 0, 0, something_high)

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Thank you. Actually, now that you mention the margin attribute, I tried it inside the axislegend function and gets the result I want.

However, when creating the custom themes I use inside Theme(), when defining the Legend() attributes, for some reason the attribute margin does not work for me, so I did not know what that attribute really did. Other Legend attributes like bgcolor, framecolor, patchlabelgap, patchsize do work well.

Any idea why using margins inside a Theme for customizing a legend does not have the same effect as when you use it inside axislegend()?

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It might be overwritten by axislegend because the default theme for free standing Legends would usually not have margins set, but it looks better inside the Axis.

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So there is currently no way of setting the margins in a Theme without them being overwritten, right?

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Hmm no it just seems to be hardcoded right now. We currently only have themes for types, not for functions.