Re: can not change line of ylabel in "Gnuplot terminal latex"

[Mojca M. <moj...@gm...>]

On 6/1/07, Ethan Merritt wrote:
> But to show that it works in principle, try the following:
>
> set term latex
> set output 'test.tex'
> set title "One line\nTwo lines\nThree lines"
> plot x

No, I didn't have that in mind. That's nonsense, since TeX ignores
newlines anyway (and considers them equal to spaces). It's obvious
that in LaTeX one is ready to put extra effort into labels by placing
extra markup, so one might want to use '\\' for newlines, but that
doesn't work inside \hbox (I assume that \makebox is only an hbox).

What gnuplot could do is to create such output that '\\' would work
out of the box (by replacing \makebox with something that accepts and
respects '\\' as a newline).

I would need to dig out the proper syntax though, since I abandoned
LaTeX some years ago.

Mojca