Re: removing duplicate keys for multiple histograms

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Thursday 16 November 2006 11:11 am, Laurence Darby wrote:
> > > Syntax is from the cvs version, but the principle should be
> > > clear:
> > >
> > > plot newhistogram "One", for [i=2:5] 'immigration.dat' using i, \
> > >      newhistogram "Two", for [i=2:5] '' using i notitle, \
> > >      newhistogram "Three", for [i=2:5] '' using i notitle
> >
> > Thanks that does exactly what I want :)
>
> Shouldn't the option "notitle" be called "nokey" instead, because
> it's making the keys disappear and the titles are still underneath
> each histogram?

You are focused on histograms, but the "notitle" option applies
to all plot types and has been part of gnuplot syntax since
approximately forever.  

Yes, histograms have a separate object that is obviously a 'title',
set by the "newhistogram" command. But all other plot types have
only the title that appears in the key.  



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Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle WA