[Gnuplot-info] help on xticlabels behavior

[Marcos M. <mar...@gm...>]

Hi folks,

I'm having a problem when using xticlabels and I'm not sure how to fix it.
I want to have the x labels rotated by -45 degrees. The problem is that
when I use the command "set xtics rotable by -45" it changes the behavior
on xticlabels and no matter what I do, it never changes. I'm using version
4.4 patchset 3 (on xubuntu 12.04).

The source file has 5 columns and the first one I want to use as label on
the x-axis. The gnuplot commands I'm using are below. If I leave the "set
xtics nomirror rotate by -45", it will always print over the bar (or under
the bars, since it is filled), perpendicular to the x-axis. If I remove the
line "set xtics nomirror rotate by -45", it will then print under the
x-axis, but parallel to it. Rotate in this case doesn't work.

The question is, how do I make the label rotate by -45 using xticlabels? I
tried everything, but the only result I get is the one I mention above. It
will always put the label perpendicular to the x-axis and under the bar.

set terminal jpeg medium
set output "histo.jpeg"
set boxwidth 0.75 absolute
set style fill solid 1 border -1
set xtics nomirror rotate by -45
set style histogram cluster gap 1
set style data histogram
set ylabel "Bandwidth"
set xlabel "Kernel Configuration"
plot "xx.dat" using 2:xticlabels(1) t "1 VM", '' u 3 t "2 VM", '' u 4 t "5
VM", '' u 5 t "10 VM"
show output

Thanks for the help.

Marcos E. Matsunaga