Re: [Gnuplot-info] variable label offset

[Thomas S. <t.s...@fz...>]

you only change the y-values for the labels, *not* for the boxes


stevecoh1 wrote:
> 
> But I don't WANT to change the Y Values.  I want boxes extending up from
> the x axis when the y value is positive and down from the x-axis when y
> is negative, with the labels placed accordingly.
> 
> Here is my dataset (comma delimited):
> Roosevelt/Truman 1945-1949,-24.3
> Truman 1949-1953,-21.9
> Eisenhower 1953-1957,-10.8
> Johnson 1965-1969,-8.3,
> Kennedy/Johnson 1961-1965,-8.2
> Clinton 1997-2001,-8.2
> Eisenhower 1957-1961,-5.4
> Carter 1977-1981,-3.2
> Nixon 1969-1973,-2.9
> Clinton 1993-1997,-0.6
> Nixon-Ford 1973-1977,0.1
> GW Bush 2001-2005,6.9
> Reagan 1985-1989,9.2
> GW Bush 2005-2009,11.2
> Reagan 1981-1985,11.3
> GHW Bush 1989-1993,13.1
> 
> The first column are used as xtics (rotated by -45), the second column
> are used for the box heights and the data labels.
> 
> The data is presorted by the second column.  Perhaps I can break this up
> into two data series (the first with negative values and the second with
> positive values) that would somehow be plotted next to rather than on
> top of one another, with different offset values, so that the desired
> label placement can be obtained over the whole set?  Would that be
> possible?
> 
> Thomas Sefzick wrote:
>> the offset is fixed, but you may change the y-value:
>> plot 'datafile' using ... with boxes, '' using 0:($2>0.?$2:0.0):1 with
>> labels left rotate by 90
>> 
>> 
>> stevecoh1 wrote:
>>> I am plotting a graph with boxes whose y values fall above and below 0.
>>>  I want to show data labels above the boxes, but the
>>> plot .. with labels offset x,y seems only to accept constants, not a
>>> variable or a function or an expression.  All I need is something like
>>> "offset 0,($2/abs($2)).   Is this doable?
>>>
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