splot --> ylabel on wrong axis

[Alexander Grahn]

Hi,

When gnuplot generates contour plots of x,y,z data with previously set
view 0,0, it always puts the ylabel as well as the ytics labels to the
right border of the graph.
I tried "set noylabel; set noytics; set y2tics; set y2label 'y-axis'"
but splot ignores these commands completely. The workaround of plotting
the contour data first to a file with terminal type "table" and then
plotting them with the "plot" command I don't like to use, since all
contours are, at least on my terminal "x11" of the same colour. Does
anyone know another solution to that problem?

Alexander.

[Hans-Bernhard Broeker]

In article <37BBE629...@fz-rossendorf.de> you wrote:

> When gnuplot generates contour plots of x,y,z data with previously set
> view 0,0, it always puts the ylabel as well as the ytics labels to the
> right border of the graph.
> I tried "set noylabel; set noytics; set y2tics; set y2label 'y-axis'"
> but splot ignores these commands completely. The workaround of plotting
> the contour data first to a file with terminal type "table" and then
> plotting them with the "plot" command I don't like to use, since all
> contours are, at least on my terminal "x11" of the same colour.

You can still colour them individually, by plotting the data
repeatedly, using the 'index' option to select contour levels.

The only other option would be to do the plot directly in 'splot',
'view 0,0' mode, switch off y axis tics completely, and draw them
manually. Series of 'set arrow ... nohead' and 'set label' statements
can be used to do that. Of course, that's highly inconvenient, but
there's not much to be done against that.

--
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (bro...@physik.rwth-aachen.de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.

[Theo Hopman]

: When gnuplot generates contour plots of x,y,z data with previously set

: view 0,0, it always puts the ylabel as well as the ytics labels to the
: right border of the graph.
: I tried "set noylabel; set noytics; set y2tics; set y2label 'y-axis'"
: but splot ignores these commands completely. The workaround of plotting
: the contour data first to a file with terminal type "table" and then
: plotting them with the "plot" command I don't like to use, since all

: contours are, at least on my terminal "x11" of the same colour. Does

: anyone know another solution to that problem?

Yes. Try `set view 180,0` then `set yrange [:] reverse`.

THeo