[BUG] Huge vertical margin of plot_title

[abehersan]

Details

I updated Plots and StatsPlots. Now there is a massive separation between a general title and the rest of the grid.
See for example:

using Plots

p1 = scatter(rand(5, 1), title = "Subplot 1")
p2 = scatter(rand(5, 1), title = "Subplot 2")
plot(p1, p2, layout=(1, 2), plot_title="Plot title")

Backends

This bug occurs on ( insert x below )

Backend	yes	no	untested
gr (default)	x
pythonplot
plotlyjs
pgfplotsx
unicodeplots
inspectdr
gaston

Versions

Plots.jl version:
Backend version (]st -m <backend(s)>):
Output of versioninfo(): v0.73.3

[zauster]

+1

[BeastyBlacksmith]

v0.73.3

Thats the version of what?

[zauster]

That must be the version of GR, as I have the same:

st -m GR

yields

[28b8d3ca] GR v0.73.3

and versioninfo() yields for me

Julia Version 1.10.2
Commit bd47eca2c8a (2024-03-01 10:14 UTC)
Build Info:
  Official https://julialang.org/ release
Platform Info:
  OS: Linux (x86_64-linux-gnu)
  CPU: 6 × AMD Ryzen 5 4500U with Radeon Graphics
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-15.0.7 (ORCJIT, znver2)
Threads: 1 default, 0 interactive, 1 GC (on 6 virtual cores)
Environment:
  JULIA_ERROR_COLOR = red
  JULIA_NUM_THREADS = 1

[abehersan]

My bad, v0.73.3 is indeed of GR.

The full output of versioninfo() yields:

Julia Version 1.10.2
Commit bd47eca2c8a (2024-03-01 10:14 UTC)
Build Info:
  Official https://julialang.org/ release
Platform Info:
  OS: Linux (x86_64-linux-gnu)
  CPU: 8 × 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1145G7 @ 2.60GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-15.0.7 (ORCJIT, tigerlake)
Threads: 1 default, 0 interactive, 1 GC (on 8 virtual cores)

[BeastyBlacksmith]

What is your Plots Version?

[jmanthony3]

I have this same issue with Plots v1.40.3.

EDIT: I don't seem to have this issue with v1.40.2.

[zauster]

I have this same issue with Plots v1.40.3.

EDIT: I don't seem to have this issue with v1.40.2.

I can confirm this. I downgraded to 1.40.2 and this huge vertical space is no longer included in my plots.

[ktitimbo]

Any way to fix this other than downgrading? I added a full-width phantom plot with only the title, it gives the desired output, but this is far from the ideal