prime symbol in LaTeX terminal

[Alan Folz]

I'm using the latex terminal type and want to use primes (' symbol)
in the axis labels (\prime is too big). The axis labels are in
quotes, however, so this throws everything off. Double quotes
don't help, and the documentation directs me to 'see set syntax',
but there is no 'set syntax'. Any suggestions would be
appreciated.

Al

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[crawford richard]

alf...@eng.umd.edu (Alan Folz) writes:

> I'm using the latex terminal type and want to use primes (' symbol)
> in the axis labels (\prime is too big). The axis labels are in
> quotes, however, so this throws everything off. Double quotes
> don't help, and the documentation directs me to 'see set syntax',
> but there is no 'set syntax'. Any suggestions would be
> appreciated.
>
> Al

I'm not a user of the LaTeX terminal or much else in the TeX family,
so I really can't help with your prime problem.

I do want to comment upon your problem with the documentation. It
appears that you have the documentation for version 3.6, since the
"syntax" section is new therein. I hope you're actually running 3.6 --
some 3.5 users have stumbled upon the 3.6 doc and have become rather
confused as a result.

But your inability to locate "set syntax" is my fault -- the "syntax"
topic is not under the "set" heading -- type just "help syntax" and
it should appear.

But I fear it may not help you with your problem anyhow.o

Thanks for pointing out the doc error --the doc file is big enough
that it's almost impossible to proof-read it any more, and running
across mistakes at random is about the only way to find them. And
my skin is thick enough that I don't mind if my mistakes are broadcast
on the net.

Dick Crawford, aka rccra...@lanl.gov