Re: Bug : epslatex with "set key left"

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

On Wednesday 24 October 2007 06:16, Fr=C3=A9d=C3=A9ric Gava wrote:
> Dear Gnuplot developpers and Ethan Merritt,
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> I attach the complete files and outputs with the problem. I used gnuplot=
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> 4.2 with Ubuntu 6.10. You can see in output.dvi that the key is in the=20
> middle

The command file you give uses the command
  set key left
  plot 'test.dat' using 1:2 title "To be on the left" with linespoints

I think if you turn on the key around the box you will see exactly
what is happening.  The key *is* drawn to the left, but the contents
are right-justified.  Whay you really want is:

  set key left Left box

or maybe even

  set key left Left reverse box

You can omit the "box" part after you understand what is going on.
Yes, there are a lot of options to the "set key" command.
This is the penalty for trying to give complete control to the user.

=2D-=20
Ethan A Merritt