[Gnuplot-info] Number of xtics

[Torquil M. S. <to...@gm...>]

Hi!

It seems that gnuplot often lets the xtics numbers overlap in my case. I would 
like to tell gnuplot to not show so many numbers on the x-axis. In my case, 4-5 
numbers on the x-axis will suffice. These are large numbers, and not in 
"scientific notation", i.e. 3.4E5.

Is it possible to do this without having to explicitely specify the positions of 
the tics? I can't find this under xtics in the documentation. I need something 
that is independent of the particular values and ranges of the x-axis in my 
plots. Something like:

set xtics maxnum 5

I'm hoping to put something like this into my gnuplot "include file" that I run 
at the top of all my gnuplot scripts.

Torquil