Re: [Gnuplot-info] Number of xtics

[aaron b. <bri...@gm...>]

torquil,

you can easily set the increment between xtics, and you can set a
fixed number of minor xtics between major ones, but for what you set
out to achieve you might need to write code that calculates the
start,incr,end for that axis or even the specific tic positions that
you want.

best,
aaron.

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On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
<to...@gm...> wrote:
> 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
>
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