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List:       gnuplot-info-beta
Subject:    Re: label offset error on 4.1
From:       KITA Toshihiro <t-kita () cc ! kumamoto-u ! ac ! jp>
Date:       2005-06-08 23:26:20
Message-ID: 20050609.082620.74730451.t-kita () cc ! kumamoto-u ! ac ! jp
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> From: Hans-Bernhard Bröker <broeker@physik.rwth-aachen.de>
> Subject: Re: label offset error on 4.1
> Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 16:55:42 +0200
> Message-ID: <42A5B56E.4070207@physik.rwth-aachen.de>
> 
> > KITA Toshihiro wrote:
> > 
> > > The problem happens when I set a label string and the offset at the same time.
> > > 
> > > gnuplot> set xla "x"
> > > gnuplot> set xla -10, -2
> > > 
> > > is OK, but, I get
> > > 
> > > gnuplot> set xla "x" -10, -2
> > >                         ^
> > >          invalid expression 
> > 
> > Please compare this command to the actual syntax description found under 
> > "help xlabel": you're missing the 'offset' keyword.
> 
> Oops, that was literally 'offset'!
> Thanks a lot for your quick reply to my misunderstanding.

Just a trivial comment :
If the word 'offset' is always necessary before the offset values,
I guess the help message for 'help set xlabel' 

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
...
 `character` coordinate system is used.  For example, "`set xlabel -1,0`"
 will change only the x offset of the title, moving the label roughly one
 character width to the left.  The size of a character depends on both the
...
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

should be 

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
...
 `character` coordinate system is used.  For example, "`set xlabel offset -1,0`"
...
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

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  KITA Toshihiro   http://t-kita.net/


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