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

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

On 06.06.2011 23:53, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Jun 2011, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:

> I don't know if it qualifies as 'exhaustive' but I tried -0.5, -1. -5, and
> -3 as offsets.

Seems you missed the meaning of the text in "help set xlabel" about the 
actual contents of the <offset> argument.  Note how it speaks of 'x,y'? 
  What you were looking for is

	set xlabel 'my text' offset 0, -5

>> 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.

And what does that actually end up in the generated PostScript file? 
Note that LaTeX has an entire world of font specification methods all 
its own.  None of that automatically works for gnuplot, which follows a 
pretty simple scheme: you give it a string, and it'll put that into the 
outputfile.  For the case at hand, I'd suggest adjusting the capitalization:

	"Palatino"



>> 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
>
>
>
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