Re: [Gnuplot-info] Tic labels in PDF histogram plot

[Thomas S. <t.s...@fz...>]

you can do this automatically by doing a dummy plot in ascii graphics to the
terminal.
in this plot only every fifth data point is drawn, this is used to set the
tics labels.
and afterwards the real plot is done, without redefining the tics labels.
and - don't forget to delete the tics labels if you want to do a second plot
with
different data within the same gnuplot session ('set xtics auto').

set style data histograms
set style fill solid
set tics out
set terminal dumb
plot 'in.dat' using (int($1)%5 == 0 ? $2 : 1/0):xtic(1)
set terminal pdf
set output 'out.pdf'
plot 'in.dat' using 2
set output


Thomas Sefzick wrote:
> 
> with xtic() you are defining an explicit list of tics labels, as you can
> see with
>    show tics
> 
> you could either
> 
> modify this list after the first plot and then plot again without xtic():
>    plot 'in.dat' using 2:xtic(1)
>    set xtics ("45" 0.00000,  "50" 5.00000,  "55" 10.0000, "60" 15.0000, 
> "65" 20.0000)
>    plot 'in.dat' using 2
> 
> or
> 
> do something completely different also resulting in a histogram:
>    plot 'in.dat' using 1:2 with histeps
> 
> 
> Roy Slaven wrote:
>> 
>> I'm trying to plot a simple histogram to a PDF file, using the following
>> script:gnuplot - <<$$$set terminal pdfset style data histogramsset style
>> fill solidset tics outset output 'out.pdf'plot 'in.dat' using
>> 2:xtic(1)$$$'in.dat' contains histogram data in the following format:45
>> 046 047 048 149 150 051 152 253 954 1555 656 357 358 159 160 161 062 263
>> 064 165 0The resulting output  is a lovely histogram, with the x axis
>> labelled using column 1.The problem is that _every_ tic is labelled,
>> which becomes unreadable when there's a lot of bins.Is there a way to
>> suppress some of the labels?I know I'm using the histogram plot in a
>> pretty simplistic way - am I using it incorrectly?ThanksRoy
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