Re: key width

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

John wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using the pslatex terminal of gnuplot.
> Everything works fine but the annoying thing is that the default key width is
> proportional to the number of characters contained in the title. However, the
> numbers of characters produced by the LaTeX code $\\delta=1$ (see code below)
> are less and so everytime I have to adjust the key width by hand.
> Is there a trick or a regular feature to deal with this problem?
> 
> Here is the gnuplot code
> set terminal pslatex norotate
> set output "out.tex"
> set format xy "$%g$"
> set key right bottom Left reverse spacing 2 width -3.5 box lw 0.5
> plot [x=0:1] [0:1] "data.txt" title "$\\delta=1$" w l lt 1 lw 1

John,

I'm not sure there is such a feature.  The keys are gradually getting upgrades, but probably not top priority stuff.  I'll admit they aren't the most flexible some times.  Perhaps you could contribute a patch.  Any ideas for how best to specify desired width?  Are you thinking manually adjustment?  I don't think interpretting the TeX is in the immediate future.  Maybe some phantom text (kind of strange solution though)?

Dan