Re: [Gnuplot-info] Adjusting Font and Label Position

[Rich S. <rsh...@ap...>]

On Mon, 6 Jun 2011, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:

> Did you exhaustively try out the 'offset' option to 'set xlabel'?  And
> what you mean by down "from" the xtic labels?

Hans-Bernhard,

   I don't know if it qualifies as 'exhaustive' but I tried -0.5, -1. -5, and
-3 as offsets. What I mean by down from the xtic labels is lower than the
label text itself (dates, rotated 90 degrees).

> Sure "palatin_e_" isn't a typo?  I just ask because the other two times you 
> wrote "palatin_o_"?

   Yep. It's a typo. And, apparently, palatino is not recognized as a
typeface. It's what I use in LaTeX/LyX.

> As to that list of supported font --- there isn't one, and there really can't 
> be.  gnuplot doesn't "support" PostScript fonts.  It just passes what you 
> told it into the PostScript file.  The instance that needs to support those 
> fonts is your PostScript interpreter.

   Well, ghostscript seems to have no issues with palatino in other
applications. Where do you suggest I look to learn what typefaces will work
locally with gnuplot?

> -1 is not a line color.  It's a linetype.  On some terminal drivers, that
> linetype will end up black.  If you don't like that, or want some other
> linetype in black, use the 'linecolor' option.

   Fixed.

   Sample plot attached.

Thanks,

Rich