[Gnuplot-info] LaTeX control characters in major tics labels

[Filip H. <he...@pl...>]

Hello everyone,

I was using G N U P L O T Version 4.2 patchlevel 6 with epsLaTeX export. I
used set format "$%g$" as encouraged in gnuplot help. I wanted to conform
with central European convention of decimal sign and to prevent LaTeX form
making space behind such decimal sign I used set decimalsign "{,}".

The problem I encountered with these settings is as follows: gnuplot does
not recognise LaTeX control characters, so that it made space for four
extra characters in major tics labels of the y axis. This extra space
appeared as ugly gap between tics labels and axis label of the y axis and
the area of the plot itself was oppressed.

Gnuplot help tells the solution of such problem for the key using the
width setting with negative value. But I haven't found any solution for
tics. Is there any way to tell gnuplot to subtract that four lengths of a
character from calculated space for tics labels?

Thanks,
       Filip Hejda