# Pgfplot: axis label is not displayed

The code for my pgfplot is as follows.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz,pgfplots}
\usetikzlibrary{plotmarks}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}[H]
\centering
\begin{axis}[legend style={at={(0,1)},anchor=north east}][y label style={rotate=-90},x label style={at={(axis description cs:7.5,-0.1)},anchor=north},
xlabel = \textbf{number of scenarios},
xmin = 1, xmax = 16,
ylabel = \boldsymbol{}  $\text{ } \text{ } \text{ }$,
ymin = 0.6, ymax = 2,
title=\textbf{ },
xtick={2, 3 ,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,11,12,13,14,15}
]
(2,2.40891)
(3,1.9175)
(4,1.50502)
(5,1.31557)
(6,1.17325)
(7,1.10642)
(8,1.01808)
(9,1.00266)
(10,0.960289)
(11,0.924278)
(12,0.893612)
(13,0.873685)
(14,0.858911)
(15,0.83322)
};
(2,2.04606)
(3,1.57398)
(4,1.27563)
(5,1.13986)
(6,1.05718)
(7,0.990486)
(8,0.936371)
(9,0.926426)
(10,0.89885)
(11,0.868987)
(12,0.842847)
(13,0.826911)
(14,0.818169)
(15,0.793917)
};
\legend{
Variant D,
Variant E}
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

However, the 'xlabel' is never displayed. What did I do wrong?

• I'm sorry that the code looks that ugly. I didn't manage to make it look any nicer.. :/ – aymi Jan 18 '17 at 14:58
• For highlighting of code, select it and click the button marked {} above the text field (or hit Ctrl + K). – Torbjørn T. Jan 18 '17 at 15:08

Your problem is that you have

\begin{axis}[...][...]

LaTeX reads only the options in the first pair of brackets, everything in the second pair is ignored it seems. Your xlabel is in the second pair.

Here is a working code. I commented out the x label style, but I also changed the coordinates for it. And I moved the legend, and commented the ylabel and title, as they are empty anyways.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\begin{axis}[
legend style={
at={(1,1)},
anchor=north east
},
y label style={rotate=-90},
%      x label style={at={(axis description cs:1,0)},anchor=north},
xlabel = \textbf{number of scenarios},
xmin = 1, xmax = 16,
%ylabel = \boldsymbol{}  $\text{ } \text{ } \text{ }$,
ymin = 0.6, ymax = 2,
%      title=\textbf{ },
xtick={2,...,15}
]
(2,2.40891)
(3,1.9175)
(4,1.50502)
(5,1.31557)
(6,1.17325)
(7,1.10642)
(8,1.01808)
(9,1.00266)
(10,0.960289)
(11,0.924278)
(12,0.893612)
(13,0.873685)
(14,0.858911)
(15,0.83322)
};
(2,2.04606)
(3,1.57398)
(4,1.27563)
(5,1.13986)
(6,1.05718)
(7,0.990486)
(8,0.936371)
(9,0.926426)
(10,0.89885)
(11,0.868987)
(12,0.842847)
(13,0.826911)
(14,0.818169)
(15,0.793917)
};
\legend{
Variant D,
Variant E}
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{figure}
\end{document}