Re: [Gnuplot-info] How to place labels with different backgrounds within one plot?

[Ethan M. <eam...@gm...>]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 11:43 AM, theozh <th...@gm...> wrote:

> Thank you, Ethan, for the explanations. OK, I see.
> Yes, "boxstyle N" would be the feature I am looking for.
> I am mainly working with wxt, pngcairo and pdfcairo (sometimes actually
> svg).
> How would you implement different text boxes backgrounds in these
> terminals?
>

I do not know of a good way to do it. That's why I started working on the
textbox
property instead.  But that didn't turn out to be easy either.

t looks like I cannot mix/add/subtract graph coordinates and char
> dimensions. How to find this offset automatically? How to deal with
> multi-line text?
>

Those are the problems, yes.

Any suggestions are welcome.
>

About the only thing I can think of using the existing unsatisfactory
options is to
use multiplot, changing the background color of the textbox style in between
plot commands within the multiplot.

     Ethan