Re: Suggestions for 5.0: Margin (and Key)

[Ethan A M. <sf...@us...>]

On Wednesday, 18 June, 2014 15:03:32 Philipp K. Janert wrote:

> > > 3) Key position and offset
> > > A very similar situation arises with the positioning
> > > of the key. Frequently, I am happy with the automatic
> > > positioning, but would like to adjust it slightly.
> > > 
> > > I can see two solutions for that: one is that 
> > > 	show key
> > > would display the actual position of the margin (so
> > > that this position, when given to "set key at ..."
> > > would reproduce the previous plot), 
> > 
> > See above.  These values can be retrieved from the GPVAL variables.
> 
> What variables hold the key position? When I
> do "show variables all", nothing seems appropriate.

I meant that you can position the key box relative to the plot
border by using, e.g.

  set key top right at graph 0.98, graph 0.98

If you want to adjust that down to the individual pixel, you can
translate those coords using GPVAL_TERM_*

	Ethan