Re: [Gnuplot-info] setting the grid bounds

[Astan C. <st...@al...>]

Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:
>> The plot is a 2D graph and the file ('C:\Temp\fileinfo0') is tabbed 
>> delimited. The problem Im having is that every plot has the y-axis 
>> starting at 0 . 
>>     
None of the y-axis values are zero. as a matter of fact, all of them are 
above 1e+009 and aside from the datafile, that is the the only commands 
im running.

>
> If so, that's because either your y axis data starts within one tick 
> interval from zero, or you have a 'set yrange [0:*]' command somewhere 
> you didn't tell us about.\
>
>  > Is there a way to set the y-axis so that it starts at
>   
>> the lowest y-value?
>>     
>
> gnuplot defaults to almost that behaviour.  For the details, see 'help 
> autoscale'.
>   
I've tried using 'set autoscale' and 'set autoscale ymin' as well as 
other 'set autoscale' but none seem to work. They still display the grid 
from 0 instead of the minimum y-value.