Line chart legend titles - fixed length?

Hi
I use a number of line charts wherein I specify the title of the individual series via variables &var1. and so on.
When I use more than 3 series in the chart, the 4th and following(up to 6) series titles are shown in '2nd' column' in the legend title/color area of the chart.
However it seems 2nd column always start a fixed number of px to the right of the 1st column no matter how long the titles of the legends in the first column is.
The result is that legend titles and colors are written on top of each other and it looks very messy.
Can I get around that somehow? Is there a fixed length defined somehow?
I thought I could just pad blanks to the legend titles in the 1st columns, but no. I tried in a number of ways doing that via &nbsp, and &#160 and so on - but no effect.
Anyone? any ideas?
Best regards,
Jesper G

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