Hi, 

For better plots (IMHO) I want to change the layout of figures, in particular the position of the axis labels (closer to the plot itself). 

For my purpose I set the position of ylabels to some specific values but now, after saving it, if I pan (or zoom) the graph, the label is moving with it. How can I set it back to 'auto' behaviour? 

set(get(gca,'ylabel'),'Position','auto') 

does not work, since the value must be numeric.

It would be okay, if Matlab changes the position then again, but it would be even better if it just calculates the new set distance.

Another question: Is there a way to set the positions unit (like for other objects: 'normalized', 'points', 'pixel' etc) ?

Greetings, 
Norman