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Re: space between sign and digit

From	Jörg Buchholz <bookwood4new@freenet.de>
Newsgroups	comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot
Subject	Re: space between sign and digit
Date	2018-07-12 07:21 +0200
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<pi6oh1$jor$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 11.07.2018 20:06, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:
> Am 11.07.2018 um 08:52 schrieb Jörg Buchholz:
>> 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.
> 
> So what's so wrong with the simple
> 
>     sprintf("f11(x) = %6.2f·x + % 7.2f",a,b11)
>     
> ?  Yes, that means for negative bl1 you'll get "+ -103.63", but is that
> really such a problem?

If I done the graph just for me it is no problem. If I give the graph to
other people in this region sometimes they say it looks odd. So it is
like Karl says, it is only a appearance problem not a really problem.

Jörg

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space between sign and digit Jörg Buchholz <bookwood4new@freenet.de> - 2018-07-11 08:52 +0200
  Re: space between sign and digit Karl Ratzsch <mail.kfr@gmx.net> - 2018-07-11 10:00 +0200
    Re: space between sign and digit Jörg Buchholz <bookwood4new@freenet.de> - 2018-07-11 14:16 +0200
      Re: space between sign and digit Karl Ratzsch <mail.kfr@gmx.net> - 2018-07-11 15:16 +0200
        Re: space between sign and digit Jörg Buchholz <bookwood4new@freenet.de> - 2018-07-12 07:36 +0200
          Re: space between sign and digit Karl Ratzsch <mail.kfr@gmx.net> - 2018-07-12 20:42 +0200
  Re: space between sign and digit Hans-Bernhard Bröker <HBBroeker@t-online.de> - 2018-07-11 20:06 +0200
    Re: space between sign and digit Karl Ratzsch <mail.kfr@gmx.net> - 2018-07-12 06:53 +0200
    Re: space between sign and digit Jörg Buchholz <bookwood4new@freenet.de> - 2018-07-12 07:21 +0200

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