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nitro123
nitro123

Reputation: 123

How can we set the width of the ticks?

In gnuplot, we can set the tick scale, but this only affects the length of the ticks. How can we change the width of the ticks? I don't see any option in the tags of xtics or ytics that would set the appropriate width.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2358

Answers (2)

Ethan
Ethan

Reputation: 15118

As theozh says, the tics are drawn using the 'border' line type. If necessary I suppose you could turn off the border, set the border linetype to whatever you want the tics to be, and then use a graph-sized rectangle to replace the border.

set border lc "black" lw 0.25  # thin lines for the tics
set border 0                   # don't draw the normal border
set tics scale 3.0             # longer than usual tics
set obj 1 rectangle from graph 0,0 to graph 1,1
set obj 1 lc "black" lw 2.5    # heavy line for the "border"
set obj 1 fillstyle empty
set grid x y

plot sinc(x)

enter image description here

Upvotes: 2

theozh
theozh

Reputation: 26088

Check help border. My guess would be that the tic width can probably not set independently of the border. Well, you could play with multiple graphs with different borders and tics on top of each other. Check help multiplot.

Code:

### set tic width
reset session

set border lw 3
set xtics scale 4
set ytics scale 1

plot x
### end of code

Result:

enter image description here

Upvotes: 1

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