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Re: controlling amount of xtics

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Kalin Kozhuharov wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I often need long strings for xtics, like full timestamps; example:
> http://gamma.tar.bz/nGeigies/42.png code:
> https://github.com/thinrope/fixed_sensor_visualization/blob/master/timeplot.gpl
> 
> Depending on the time such plot is generated, the number of xtics is
> changing +/- 1 and when it is +1 it is too crowded.
> 
> Is there a way to say I want "no more than N xtics", without having to
> specify their position/label explicitly?
> 
> Or some other way to restrict too crowded labels?

The usual thing is to tilt the labels downward by 45°.
    set xtics rotate by -45 left


> Ideally gnuplot should take into consideration the rendered width of
> (at least) fixed labels and space them appropriately, but I know that
> is too hard in general.
> 
> Kalin.

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controlling amount of xtics Kalin Kozhuharov <me.kalin@gmail.com> - 2014-09-18 19:05 -0700
  Re: controlling amount of xtics Ethan A Merritt <EAMerritt@gmail.com> - 2014-09-18 22:17 -0700
    Re: controlling amount of xtics Kalin Kozhuharov <me.kalin@gmail.com> - 2014-09-24 07:21 -0700

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