Carl Baum

Hello Thomas, Placing the key outside is always a possibility, however you know that this takes as significant real state, and usually it does not look good, otherwise everyone would be using this approach all the time. IMHO it should not be hard for GnuPlot to figure out which one of the 8 typical places produces the minimum overlap, and have that as an option. Look at my examples, to me GnuPlot would do a great service to the GnuPlot community if it was smart enough to select a position that overlaps...

automatic key placement to reduce overlap with plotted data