Re: key box spacing defects

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

On Saturday 12 April 2008 17:38, pl...@pi... wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> a minor issue but worth fixing at some stage.
> 
> I need to get the key box as tight as possible to prevent it over-running  
> my plots. This must surely be quite a common concern.
> 
> In trying to reduce it I notice that there are one or two extras space  
> characters before each legend's text. The space after the line sample  
> seems a reasonable size but the left border space is about three times  
> bigger. This is wasted space and a visual imbalance.

I can't seem to reproduce this problem.
Please tell us the exact version of gnuplot you are using,
and the exact "set terminal" command including the font.

The one case I know of that behaves somewhat like this is when you
have an enhanced text string as a plot title.  Gnuplot over-estimates
the length of the title because of the enhanced text mark-up characters.
You can adjust this by using the "width" keyword to "set key box".




> Also there seems to be no top margin. The "l" in plot of my first line  
> actually touches the box (with set key box).
> 
> If someone works on this part of gnuplot it maybe a thing to tidy up.
> 
> A consistant border all the way round would be nice. Maybe with an option  
> border width to control it like is possible with vertical line spacing.

-- 
Ethan A Merritt