X-Received: by 10.101.72.132 with SMTP id n4mr578861pgs.215.1503411095701; Tue, 22 Aug 2017 07:11:35 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.36.39.143 with SMTP id g137mr12790ita.9.1503411095627; Tue, 22 Aug 2017 07:11:35 -0700 (PDT) Path: csiph.com!3.us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!news.snarked.org!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!x187no696146ite.0!news-out.google.com!1ni3976itx.0!nntp.google.com!x187no696141ite.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 07:11:35 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=131.228.197.16; posting-account=j-3L0goAAAD8ngXXGM8odQCKftWnH1Fd NNTP-Posting-Host: 131.228.197.16 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Few problems using GnuPlot 5.0 on Mac OS X From: Kevin Buchs Injection-Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 14:11:35 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Lines: 65 Xref: csiph.com comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot:3721 Ethan, Thanks for the reply and setting me straight.=20 The example of rotation you directed me toward indeed only pulls the rotati= on 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 se= tting because so many other "set" values are global (through the next plot = at least). I argue that rotation and justification should at least be stick= y for the next plot command. The use of parentheses in the context of "using" is a fairly well kept secr= et. I found it in the manual in a single phrase of a sentence.=20 I looked at dozens of examples and spent a lot of time with the manual. I s= uppose the major reason for posting is to identify the opportunity to impro= ve. You probably didn't understand what I meant by REPL (https://en.wikipedia.o= rg/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 fr= ustrated with that, I finally scripted my inputs and ran a compound command= from a commandline to run gnuplot and then open the png file.=20 Here is what I ended up with: 8><------------------------------------------------------------------------= ---------- $Data <<------------------------------------------------------------------------= ---------- =20