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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
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Dr Tim Gruene
Institut fuer anorganische Chemie
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D-37077 Goettingen
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