Re: [Gnuplot-info] Problems with errorbar and border

[Tait <gnu...@t4...>]

This is a workaround that doesn't work in some cases, like when the
upper border should instead be transparent, as it would be in some
other terminals. Is there a solution for that?


Thomas Sefzick <t.s...@fz...> said (on 2011/10/27):
> Subject: Re: [Gnuplot-info] Problems with errorbar and border
> 
> 
> you may fix this by drawing a white line where the upper border would be
> located:
> 
> set arrow 1 from graph 0, 1 to graph 1, 1 nohead front linecolor rgb "white"
> 
> 
> Patrik.Br. wrote:
> > Hello everyone
> > 
> > I want to plot a data set with errorbars and showing only the left and
> > lower border. I've set the yrange so that some of the errorbars will
> > extend outside the range. However, removing the top border reveals that
> > the errorbars that go outside the graph get a tic at the upper limit of
> > the y-range, making the errorbars look shorter than they really are. Can I
> > fix this or is it a bug?
> > 
> > Here's an example:
> > 
> > Code:
> > 
> > reset
> > set terminal epslatex standalone color size 12cm, 4cm font "cmr,8" 
> > set output 'mwe2.tex'
> > 
> > # Set ranges and tics
> > set yrange [0 : 22]
> > set xrange [0 : 11]
> > set xtics 1 nomirror
> > set ytics 4 nomirror
> > 
> > # Show only left and lower borders
> > set border 3
> > 
> > # Plot
> > plot  'data.dat' using 1:3:4 with errorb ls 1 notitle
> > 
> > 
> > ...and here's a sample data file:
> > 1.0000    1.0000    1.7062    9.9417
> > 2.0000    3.0000    3.7585    8.2323
> > 3.0000    5.0000    5.4395    2.5743
> > 4.0000    7.0000    7.3054    0.0440
> > 5.0000    9.0000    9.7473    2.0102
> > 6.0000   11.0000   11.6045    2.4656
> > 7.0000   13.0000   13.1175    7.4214
> > 8.0000   15.0000   15.3401    0.5689
> > 9.0000   17.0000   18.8288   11.9895
> > 10.0000   19.0000   19.9611    14.3540
> >