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Re: documentation clarification

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Oblio wrote:

> The documentation shows two different examples for giving labels under
> the Histograms section.  The sample syntax is:
> 
> set style histogram columnstacked
> plot '' u 5:key(1) # uses first column to generate key titles
> plot '' u 5 title columnhead # uses first row to generate xtic labels
> 
> The comments appear to me not to be mutually exclusive.  

Correct. They can both be used for the same columnstacked plot.

> In fact this
> is what I'd like to do - can I combine "key(x)" to note that the data
> is coming from column x, while using the "columnhead" to create the x
> labels?  This makes a lot more sense when you're creating a rowstack.

That doesn't make sense.  In a rowstacked plot each column of data 
contributes to every x value.  How could you use the column header as
an x label?

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documentation clarification Oblio <oblio.leitch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-21 07:13 -0800
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