-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Kay,
the rotation can be achieved with 'set xtics rotate by 30' I did not know about xticlabels, suggested by Abhinav - very useful! Best, Tim On 06/24/2013 04:54 PM, Kay Diederichs wrote: > Dear Gnuplot users, > > you all know the crystallographic tables which have a column of > resolution values, and columns of crystallographic indicators (R, > I/sigma, ... whatever). Assuming that I want to plot the indicator > in column 2 as a function of resolution, I can simply say >> plot 'table.dat' us 2 > but the problem is now that I would like to have the resolution > values as labels, so instead of 0 1 2 3 4 5 ... I would like to > have 30.6 5.72 3.90 3.17 2.64 ... or so. Furthermore these labels > might be fairly wide, so I would like to rotate them, by (say) 30° > or even 90°. In the past, I seem to remember that I have manually > positioned the labels, as individual text strings. This can be done > for a single plot ... but then again, we live in the 3rd millenium > and there must be a better way. Can Gnuplot take the labels from > the file and put them into the right place? Could anyone please > share the Gnuplot magic for doing so? > > thanks, > > Kay - -- - -- Dr Tim Gruene Institut fuer anorganische Chemie Tammannstr. 4 D-37077 Goettingen GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFRyGeKUxlJ7aRr7hoRAvDzAKDsFX8Hj8FiQlulx8LEW9i9IDR//QCg7Fl5 JMcIJYnPpl/3dQNyGQfKhX0= =vgxc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
