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Re: alignment in key title

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On Wednesday, 27 August 2014 17:31:07 UTC+8, Karl  wrote:
> Am 27.08.2014 01:02, schrieb i.bray@curtin.edu.au:
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> > On Tuesday, 26 August 2014 09:31:30 UTC+8, i.b...@curtin.edu.au  wrote:
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> >> The gnuplot documentation says that key title alignment is same as in the key. However, I find that it is always centered, irrespective of "set key Left/Right". Am I missing something? It would be great to have flexibility to build aligned tables as in Google-Scholar, e.g. top right of http://scholar.google.com.au/citations?hl=en&user=6eaYJHwAAAAJ 
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> >> I presently use gnuplot-4.6, and have been a very grateful gnuplot user for almost two decades.
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> > I found an ugly workaround: set key outside top Left title sprintf("All career\n%-15s%5g\n%-15s %5g\n..., see graphic at http://atom.curtin.edu.au/
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> You could use enhanced text mode to typeset a table:
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> sp1="&{longspacer}"
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> sp2="&{spacer}"
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> tl1="Titletitle\n"
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> tl2="@{Test}".sp1."@{12}".sp2."\n"
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> tl3="@{Testen}".sp1."@{4}".sp2."\n"
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> tl4="@{Tes}".sp1."@{654}".sp2
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> set key title tl1.tl2.tl3.tl4
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> If all table lines have the same length (using spacers over everything),
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> they even stay aligned when centred. I guess you tried to do the same,
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> but sprintf obviously doesn�t take the character widths into account.
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> Unrelated, it�d be nice to be able to control the justification of the
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> legend title, i.e.
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>  set key title left|cent|right <titletext>
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> perhaps set up a feature request on sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot
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> The documentation is indeed wrong, and the behaviour described there
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> also wouldn�t make much sense, imho.
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> Or you could use the epslatex/cairolatex/.. terminal and then add a
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> nicely streamlined table as latex code.
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> Best regards,
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>   Karl

Thanks for the reply Karl, and confirming that the documentation is wrong! I used a fixed width font to avoid the problem you identified. Cheers, Igor.

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alignment in key title i.bray@curtin.edu.au - 2014-08-25 18:31 -0700
  Re: alignment in key title i.bray@curtin.edu.au - 2014-08-26 16:02 -0700
    Re: alignment in key title Karl <mail.kfr@gmx.net> - 2014-08-27 11:31 +0200
      Re: alignment in key title i.bray@curtin.edu.au - 2014-08-28 18:12 -0700

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