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Lukáš Altman
Lukáš Altman

Reputation: 527

distance between y-axis and label

What is wrong with this?

set ylabel 1.0,0.0
set ylabel "{/:Italic M}" font "Allert,12"

The error is

 unexpected or unrecognized token

Thank you

Upvotes: 1

Views: 689

Answers (2)

Vinicius Placco
Vinicius Placco

Reputation: 1731

If you do 

gnuplot>?set xlabel

 Syntax:
       set xlabel {"<label>"} {offset <offset>} {font "<font>{,<size>}"}
                  {textcolor <colorspec>} {{no}enhanced}
                  {rotate by <degrees> | rotate parallel | norotate}
       show xlabel

It seems you cannot give x,y positions to the labels. What you can do is give it dx,dy offsets:

> set ylabel "{/:Italic M}" font "Allert,12" offset dx,dy

Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 1

Joce
Joce

Reputation: 2332

It would help to make your question a little more explicit about what you intend to do.

Guessing from your code, possibly you want to have italic M label with an offset of (1,0). This would write

set ylabel "{/:Italic M}" font "Allert,12" offset 1,0

Indeed the first number in offset will set the distance between y-axis and label. What you were missing is simply this offset keyword in the first line :

set ylabel offset 1.0,0.0

Upvotes: 2

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