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[Gnuplot-info] Greek label in data file

[Zhong R. <re...@uc...>]

I have been using Greek labels in a quoted string such as '{/Symbol a}' for alpha.  I now need a lot of them stored in a column of a data file.  For example,

plot 'data.file' u 1:2:3 w labels

The third column is broken into '{/Symbol' and 'a}', which of course results in "bad syntax in enhanced text string".  I cannot think of a way to fix this.  Any help would be very appreciated.

Zhong Ren

Re: [Gnuplot-info] Greek label in data file

[Thomas S. <t.s...@fz...>]

Zhong Ren <renz <at> uchicago.edu> writes:

> I have been using Greek labels in a quoted string such as '{/Symbol a}' for
alpha.  I now need a lot of them
> stored in a column of a data file.  For example,
> 
> plot 'data.file' u 1:2:3 w labels
> 
> The third column is broken into '{/Symbol' and 'a}', which of course results
in "bad syntax in enhanced text
> string".  I cannot think of a way to fix this.  Any help would be very
appreciated.
> 
> Zhong Ren

you may enclose the strings in your datafile in double quotes:

1 1 "{/Symbol and a}"