Align vertically two plots

[James]

Hello,
I would like to align vertically two plots, but the yaxis labels prevent me from doing that. Here is a minimal working example:

set multiplot

#first plot

set size 1,.5
set origin  0,0

set format y ""     
unset ytics
set ytics add ("1" 1, "-1" -1) offset 0,0

p cos(x)

#second plot

res

set size 1,0.3
set origin 0,.5

set format y ""     
unset ytics 
set ytics add ("1000" 1000, "-1000" -1000) offset 0,0

p 1000*sin(x)

unset multiplot

Which generates this plot

Because the ylabel in the top panel has 4 digits and the one in the bottom panel has 2 digits, the two plots are not aligned vertically. Do you know how to force gnuplot to align them vertically, without manually tuning the plot position?

Thank you for your help.
Best,

[Bastian Märkisch]

You can fix the distance from the left plot border to the canvas border by using

set lmargin 8

for both plots (or omitting the reset in between.
See also the "aligned plots" demo at http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo_5.0/margins.html

[James]

This works perfectly, thank you!

Best,
James