Re: [Gnuplot-info] Some basic questions on tics and labels

[Paulo J. M. <poc...@gm...>]

On 25/04/06, Hans-Bernhard Br=F6ker <br...@ph...> wrote:
> Paulo J. Matos wrote:
> > On 25/04/06, Hans-Bernhard Br=F6ker <br...@ph...> wro=
te:
> >> Paulo J. Matos wrote:
>
> >>> 1. Although I have a logscale plot I would like it to show 0,0 as
> >>> original instead of 0.01, 0.01. Can I do this?
>
> >> Not automatically --- nor should you want to.  Why do you want to lie =
to
> >> the reader of your plot?
>
> > Not a lie... Just thought that a graph starting at 0,0 would look nicer=
. :)
>
> It wouldn't look nice, it'd simply look *wrong*.  Labelling that tick
> with "0" means you, the author of this diagram, claim that this is the
> zero is on this axis.  But that's not the case, so this claim is quite
> definitely a lie.
>
> > 1 - I don't have my figs in the same place as the latex files so when
> > including I get a path problem in the generated tex file by gnuplot
> > which assumes the eps are in the same path of the latex main files.
> > Not a problem at all, I just manually change the generated tex but is
> > there anyway of doing this from gnuplot?
>
> No. But you don't have to: LaTeX has path search mechanisms to find
> files.  Use them, and you won't have to edit generated TeX fragments.
> Or, if you really don't want to have two files, see the documentation of
> epslatex (or pslatex) on how to make it put the PostScript stuff
> directly into the TeX file.
>
> > 2 - How can I change the Latex letters? generated by the tex file? I ha=
ve:
> > set terminal epslatex color solid "default" 8
> > But changing 8 from 10 doesn't seem to change the size at all.
>
> IIRC, it's not supposed to. Font "default" means the figure will use
> whatever LaTeX's font is at the point of inclusion.  I.e. you can change
> this in the master document, at the point where you include the file
> generated by gnuplot.  You really have to read the documentation more.
>

Thanks! :) I would love to really have more time to read the
documentation carefully but right now I'm quite in a hurry. I
appreciate your comments.

>
>


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