Re: [Gnuplot-info] XTick Labels?

[Robert H. <he...@de...>]

None of this helps.  The X Tick labels are still the numberical indexes and 
not the text in column of the data file.

At Sun, 8 Feb 2026 11:38:29 +0100 Norwid Behrnd <nb...@ya...> wrote:

> 
> Dear Robert
> 
> The example shared by you includes three consecutive lines relevant to the
> management of xtics:
> 
> > set xtics border in scale 0,0 nomirror rotate by -45  autojustify
> > set xtics  norangelimit 
> > set xtics   ()
> 
> By `set xtics scale 0,0` you however set them invisible.  Compare for example
> the result of 
> 
> ```
> set terminal png
> set output "test_01.png"
> set title "test 01"
> 
> set xtics in scale 0,0
> plot sin(x)
> ```
> 
> with (an exaggerated example)
> 
> ```
> set terminal png
> set output "test_02.png"
> set title "test 02"
> 
> set xtics in scale 10,0
> plot sin(x)
> ```
> 
> Equally, compare with the first example "US immigration from Europe by decade"
> on <https://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo_5.4/histograms2.html> -- sometimes the
> tics extend beyond the bars (e.g., 1931--1940, Northern Europe) to be visible,
> while e.g., about 1901--1910 they are not.  Here, `set xtics out` yields xtics
> which don't enter the first quadrant and hence are not affected by the
> histogram's bars.
> 
> In your example, the annotations to the abscissa are short; this is the reason
> why I think to use `set xtics out` without a `rotate by -45` provides a result
> easier to read and 
> 
> ```
> set xtics out border nomirror autojustify
> set xtics  norangelimit 
> ```
> 
> might suffice.  Note `set xtics ()` can void your earlier list of instructions
> about the xtics.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Norwid
> 
>                                                 
> 

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