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Re: Can't use columnhead() more than once

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> The help on "columnhead" says
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> "columnhead(x) may _only_ be used in expressions as part of _using_
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> manipulations to fits or datafile plots."
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> , so this is not strictly supposed to work. On the other hand, the
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> help "Datastrings" gives examples for using it in the "title" statement.
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> So the documentation needs an update here.
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> That a second instance of columnhead gives nothing, and the first
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> one a wrong header then, looks like a bug. Nobody thought about the
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> possibility of wanting two headers for one plot.
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> But why do you want the abscissa title in the legend anyway? just
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> put it in the xlabel. The x-axis is the independant variable, so
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> everything is plotted vs. the x-axis.
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>    Karl

Dear Karl, thanks a lot! Surely, I can display all titles and captions elsewhere. This example was my very first trial with gnuplot - such a novice trials may sometimes lead to behaviors like this :) Thanks again for the explanation.

Serge

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Can't use columnhead() more than once Serge Terekhov <serge.terekhov@gmail.com> - 2013-07-30 14:31 -0700
  Re: Can't use columnhead() more than once Karl <ratzsch@polymer.uka.de> - 2013-07-31 16:08 +0200
    Re: Can't use columnhead() more than once Serge Terekhov <serge.terekhov@gmail.com> - 2013-07-31 09:58 -0700
      Re: Can't use columnhead() more than once Karl <mail.kfr@gmx.net> - 2013-07-31 19:40 +0200

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