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Re: Size of very plot and position of labels

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Hi Christoph,

Christoph Bersch wrote:

> On 12.04.2011 15:51, Sebastian Schubert wrote:
>> Dear Christoph,
>>
>> Christoph Bersch wrote:
>>
>>> On 11.04.2011 16:04, Sebastian Schubert wrote:
>>>> I would like to have a fixed position of the ylabel and
>>>> a fixed size of the plot box. Of course, by doing so, I risk having the
>>>> axis label text crash into ylabel but I'll just check the output.
>>>>
>>>> What is the best way to do that?
>>
>>> In case that for your different graphs the ytics digit count changes,
>>> you must use 'set label' instead of 'set ylabel', something like:
>>>
>>> set label 'ylabel' center at screen 0.05, graph 0.5 rotate by 90
>>
>> That was exactly what I needed. It would be nice if this was integrated
>> into gnuplot somehow because this syntax (despite all the rotate and so
>> on), one also has to unset the label of all the plots are generated by
>> one script.
> 
> Sorry, but I don't understand what you mean. What should be integrated
> into gnuplot and for what reason?

I would like to see an easier way to set the position of the axis labels and 
the size of the plot box similar for different plots. So basically, for 
example, an option for ylabel so that it works exactly as you proposed above 
with label as a workaround. This would just make things simpler.


> I guess you need your graphics for a presentation where you overlay
> several plots. 

I did not think of that but yes, I don't like when things jump around there.

In my case, I want to align 6 plots on a page with latex. I prefer to do it 
in latex because I can reference the subfigures then. Five of the six share 
the same size of tics, just one is different and so is its plot box size. 
From my typographical feeling, the plots are as big as the plot box is. The 
axis labels are just additional text. Therefore, although all plots have the 
same size, they look of different size because of the changing plot box 
size.

> If so, this is a rather special case, in most other cases
> the default behaviour of 'set ylabel' to adapt to the ytics format, is
> desirable.

You have to decide whether my application above is a common one (I'd say 
yes).

Thanks a lot
Sebastian

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Size of very plot and position of labels Sebastian Schubert <schubert.seb@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-11 16:04 +0200
  Re: Size of very plot and position of labels Christoph Bersch <usenet@bersch.net> - 2011-04-11 16:56 +0200
    Re: Size of very plot and position of labels Sebastian Schubert <schubert.seb@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-12 15:51 +0200
      Re: Size of very plot and position of labels Christoph Bersch <usenet@bersch.net> - 2011-04-12 16:23 +0200
        Re: Size of very plot and position of labels Sebastian Schubert <schubert.seb@googlemail.com> - 2011-04-12 17:38 +0200
          Re: Size of very plot and position of labels Christoph Bersch <usenet@bersch.net> - 2011-04-13 10:41 +0200

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