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

[Hejda F. Bc. <he...@pl...>]

Hello,

> That said, the thing you're looking for would be the 'offset' option to
"set xtics" et al.

I knew about offset and as far as I know that's not what I was looking
for, when I wrote

>> the area of the plot itself was oppressed.

The tics labels in LaTeX are typeset right justified, so that they are
perfectly aligned to the axis. By offsetting them I can slide them more
close to the ylabel. But the ugly gap I described will then appear between
the tics labels and the axis. Sorry if I did not describe it clearly
enough but the main problem is that there is too much space between ylabel
and the y axis itself.

> That reasoning is based on the assumption that there is such a thing as
"four lengths of a character" --- using proportional fonts in an advanced
type-setter like LaTeX, that's not the case.

I definitely know that Computer Modern fonts by Donald Knuth and their
modifications are proportional, so that it is a way harder to say what is
"character width". But as far as I know gnuplot allows me to use
coordinate system "character" e.g. for the mentioned "offset" even with
epsLaTeX terminal. I did not inquire if it takes "em" units or some
averaged width but I saw this system precise enough to reposition a key
full of control characters to the place where I wanted it.

> You may be better off using single-quoted strings for those, i.e. '{,}'.

Thank you very much for this suggestion. I tried it and it seems I don't
need to use extra backslash for commands any more, that's much more
comfortable.

> That version is from 2009.

Thanks for encouraging me to upgrade. I hope I will switch to another
linux distro soon and get the newest version. If something changed about
the problem I described in recent development, please tell me.

Thank you very much,
                    Filip Hejda