Re: width of text in latex terminals

[Robert H. <en...@no...>]

On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 18:37 +0100, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> Robert Hart wrote:
> 
> > set format y '[r]{%.0t$\times$10$^{%+03T}$}'
> > ends up with a huge gap between the border of the plot and yaxis label
> > because gnuplot assumes the tic labels are much bigger than the actually
> > are.
> 
> And you have command like 'set lmargin' for the express reason that they 
> enable you to work around that misfeature.

This I am aware of. These workarounds are difficult to find for novice
users and inconsistently implemented (e.g "set lmargin" completely
overrides the calculated width, but "set key width" and "set ylabel
offset" require a number of charwidths to add or remove)

At very least, the terminal help should mention the possible need for
these commands, but I would have thought a better estimate of the length
would eliminate the need for them in the majority of cases.

-- 
Robert Hart <en...@no...>
University of Nottingham


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