Re: offset error

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

On Thursday, November 16, 2017 3:27:30 PM PST Tait wrote:
> 
> This works:
> plot 'gpdata1.txt', '' using 1:2:("x") with labels offset 3, ''
> 
> ... but this doesn't:
> plot 'gpdata1.txt', '' using 1:2:("x") with labels offset 3, '' with linespoints
> 
> ... and this does:
> plot 'gpdata1.txt', '' using 1:2:("x") with labels, '' with linespoints
> 
> The error is "duplicated or contradicting arguments in plot
> options" with the arrow pointing to the last "with". It appears
> to be some kind of error with offset.

offset needs 2 (or 3) values.  
	offset x,y
or
	offset x,y,z

Your command tries to interpret '' as a y offset
Depending on what is in the quotes, that is either going to fail
trying to parse the "value" or succeed but consume one too
many tokens from the command line while doing so.

	Ethan