X-Received: by 10.107.56.198 with SMTP id f189mr5869820ioa.120.1508082971920; Sun, 15 Oct 2017 08:56:11 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.157.52.218 with SMTP id t26mr125781otd.10.1508082971895; Sun, 15 Oct 2017 08:56:11 -0700 (PDT) Path: csiph.com!3.us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!news.snarked.org!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!k70no1639300itk.0!news-out.google.com!194ni3106itf.0!nntp.google.com!k70no1639295itk.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2017 08:56:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=73.117.121.104; posting-account=yC8mVwkAAADuRBqBIdPVfec50l5EMdYn NNTP-Posting-Host: 73.117.121.104 References: <7315456a-1c46-4d21-a6d2-d6787dc89187@e6g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <26548b34-97c3-441b-a5a5-1ca05754f7e5@o77g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <3e39320c-6e1e-4ae2-bfe3-790e2c33694e@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: label a scatter plot with non-clashing text labels automatically From: Gavin Buxton Injection-Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2017 15:56:11 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Lines: 9 Xref: csiph.com comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot:3778 Hi Do you need all points labeled? Would plotting all points first and then plotting only every other label work? Something like: plot 'data.dat' u 1:2 w p, '' every 2 u 1:2:3 with labels I really like some of the other answers though! Gavin