Re: [Gnuplot-info] Plot size and spacing problem

[Hans-Bernhard B. <HBB...@t-...>]

Christian Schroeder wrote:

> I'm having a problem with fonts (I think) and sizing related to latex
> terminals. 

Not really.  What you're having a problem with is that it's quite 
impossible for gnuplot to guess what LaTeX will make of a label text. 
It has no way to position the graph box snugly because it lacks the 
information for that.

> It seems as if gnuplot is assuming that in the ytics labels all of
> the characters in all of the latex escape codes are represented in
> the final plot,

That's exactly what happens, yes.

> which, of course, when the latex document is compiled, they are not.

There's no way gnuplot could know that, short of re-implementing all of 
LaTeX.

> How do I fix this? 

See "help xtics" about the "offset" option, I think.