Fwd: Re: key box spacing defects

[<pl...@pi...>]

Please ignore this post which contains incorrect info and refer to my
later one.

Sorry for the bad post.

/Peter

On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:58:03 +0200, <pl...@pi...> wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 03:06:27 +0200, Ethan A Merritt
> <merritt@u.washington.edu> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> I am running CVS gnuplot rebuild at begining April 08.
>
> I noticed this on svg output and looking back over archived plots (done
> with 6 mth old cvs) I note that png seems exactly the same layout:
> http://piments.com/panel/images/
>
>
> however I have a jpeg (prob cvs march 07) that has no left margin and the
> first letter of the longest label touches the box.
>
> This one has a rather large left margin , is there a minimum default  
> width
> at play here?
> http://piments.com/panel/150tank-txW.svg
> cf http://piments.com/panel/150tank-txI.jpeg
> cf file://localhost/tmpd/img/panel/150tank-tx6.png
>
> Looking over many outputs over this period of time I see many different
> behaviours. For example this svg which has zero top and left margin but
> reasonable right and bottom. This has not explicit key commands in the
> source file.
>
> http://piments.com/panel/trans-fn.svg
>
>
> Feel free to parouse http://piments.com/panel and
> http://piments.com/panel/images there are a variety of output formats
> dating from this period. All the 150tank* files are essentially the same
> gnuplot source as far as the box goes. There are a number of different
> plot titles in plot commands , none of which have any leading spaces.
>
> The only key commands are:
>
> set key box
> set key top right
>
> HTH.
> /Peter.
>