Oddities when plotting "with labels"

[Mike S. <mw...@us...>]

I was trying to plot some data with labels and points from a data file and =
got=20
the following error when the "offset" option was used.  It seems that the=20
comma in the offset specification confuses the command line parser.  A work=
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around is to make sure the "with labels" is the last thing plotted.  I thin=
k=20
a note should be added to the 4.2 documentation about this limitation.

plot 'mike3.dat'  with labels left offset 3,3 , 'mike4.dat' with points
        duplicated or contradicting arguments in plot options

=46rom the documentation for "with labels"
> The font, color, rotation angle and other properties of the printed text =
may
> be specified as additional command options .=20

So I started playing around with the text color. =20
    plot 'mike3.dat' w labels left  tc rgb "blue"

This works for RC4 but not for the CVS HEAD (4.3).  I have not investigated=
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why "tc rgb 'color'" does not work for 4.3.  It always comes up black.=20
However, using "tc lt #" does work as expected.

I have also thought that the addition of a label style, analogous to=20
linestyle,  would be useful.

Mike Sutton