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Re: Few problems using GnuPlot 5.0 on Mac OS X

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Ethan,

Thanks for the reply and setting me straight. 

The example of rotation you directed me toward indeed only pulls the rotation angle from the data.

It sure is misleading that the manual only documents "label rotate xyz" and "label right" in the context of set. That really implies it is a global setting because so many other "set" values are global (through the next plot at least). I argue that rotation and justification should at least be sticky for the next plot command.

The use of parentheses in the context of "using" is a fairly well kept secret. I found it in the manual in a single phrase of a sentence. 

I looked at dozens of examples and spent a lot of time with the manual. I suppose the major reason for posting is to identify the opportunity to improve.

You probably didn't understand what I meant by REPL (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read%E2%80%93eval%E2%80%93print_loop). It would be nice to see the plot interactively while in gnuplot's interactive interface. After being frustrated with that, I finally scripted my inputs and ran a compound command from a commandline to run gnuplot and then open the png file. 

Here is what I ended up with:


8><----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
$Data <<EOD
1 13 "Abcd NOC Handling"
2 43 "Abcd T3 Team for SLI"
3 12 "Abcd BBNOC"
4 53 "Abcd Efghij Support"
5 21 "Efghij Response Time"
6 47 "Efghij replicating problem"
7 11 "Efghij workaround to staging"
8 43 "Abcd/Jari verify staging"
9 86 "Efghij workaround to production"
10 5 "Abcd confirmation/resolution"
EOD

set terminal pngcairo transparent enhanced font "arial,10" fontscale 1.0 size 500, 350
set title "Time for Major Steps In P1 Resolution"
set style fill solid 1.0
set style textbox opaque noborder
unset key
set boxwidth 0.75 abs
set bmargin at screen 0.1
set tmargin at screen 0.9
set angle degrees
unset xtics
set yrange [0:100]
set ylabel "Seconds"

set output "p1-times.png"

plot $Data using 1:2 with boxes, '' using 1:(2):3:(-90) with labels rotate variable right
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Few problems using GnuPlot 5.0 on Mac OS X Kevin Buchs <kevin.buchs@gmail.com> - 2017-08-21 15:34 -0700
  Re: Few problems using GnuPlot 5.0 on Mac OS X Ethan A Merritt <EAMerritt@gmail.com> - 2017-08-21 22:47 -0700
    Re: Few problems using GnuPlot 5.0 on Mac OS X Kevin Buchs <kevin.buchs@gmail.com> - 2017-08-22 07:11 -0700
      Re: Few problems using GnuPlot 5.0 on Mac OS X Ethan A Merritt <EAMerritt@gmail.com> - 2017-08-22 09:27 -0700

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