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very minor bug in documentation

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Dear gnuplot developers,

The documentations of label, xlabel, etc. have

  {font "<font>{,<size>}"}

But, in fact, things like

  set xlabel "{/Symbol g} {/Times-Italic i}" font ",24"

work.  That is, you can omit the font name and specify
only the size.  This feature is obviously useful when
your label has multiple fonts as in the above example.

So, the documentation is slightly wrong.  I think a
more correct version is

  {font "<font>{,<size>}" | font "{<font>},<size>"}

Or,

  {font "{<font>}{,<size>}"}

if you allow things like font "" (meaning no font change).

By the way, in some places, we find

    font "<name>{,<size>}"

Here we find <name> in place of <font> .  I thought this
is inconsistent (if there isn't any intention behind the
difference).

Regards,
Ryo

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