Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?J=c3=b6rg_Buchholz?= Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot Subject: space between sign and digit Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2018 08:52:11 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 15 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2018 06:52:10 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="dc26474d1c6b47379bccbe64355446fa"; logging-data="327"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/exoLaA5i5MfTc8AQ5hGSZKo3rcq8mOQ8=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:/Jce9hUxK9omkwNsJi/30BoQJ0s= Content-Language: en-GB X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://news.eternal-september.org:119 Xref: csiph.com comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot:3994 Hello, I would like to print a function in the key like this: f11(x) = -2.56·x - 103.63 I use the following code in the plot command for that: f11(x) lt 2 lw 4 dt 4 t sprintf("f11(x) =%6.2f·x%+7.2f",a,b11) That means, that I use the sign from the format specifier as plus sign or minus sing in the printed function. But than I don't have a space in front of the second number. The second number can be positive or negative. Jörg