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List:       gnuplot-info
Subject:    RE: format label lenght
From:       "crawford" <crawford () arete ! com>
Date:       2000-10-31 16:58:02
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On Tuesday, October 31, 2000 Romano Giannetti wrote:
>
>    I am sorry about using this address as a first contact, but I do
> not have any (easy) access to NNTP. So, my question is: I
> tried to use
> the "postscript enhanced" features to do something like this:
>
> set ylabel "{/Helvetica=12 %g}"
>
> and, although it is working (changing font I mean) the spacing on the
> graph is as the additional command where to be printed. Is this a bug
> or I have overlooked some "set" command?

This is not a bug -- it's simply a problem we have to live with.  The
difficulty arises from the fact that gnuplot computes the position of a
label based upon the number of characters in the text string -- it does not
know what the terminal driver is going to do with that text string, so it
does not know how long the text string will actually be.

In the case of "set ylabel", you will probably get better results by not
including the font inside the string:
    set ylabel '%g' "Helvetica,12"

Or have I misunderstood your problem?

Dick Crawford, aka crawford@arete.com

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