From help-request at octave dot org Thu Aug 11 22:05:11 2005 Subject: Re: Rotate label by +45 or - 45 degrees From: Geordie McBain To: "Henry F. Mollet" Cc: Octave_post Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:04:25 +1000 Hello. To rotate text in gnuplot, you need to tell it `rotate by 45', not just `rotate 45', as in: octave> __gnuplot_raw__ ("set label 1 'some inclined text' rotate by 45 \n") octave> __gnuplot_raw__ ("plot sin(x)\n") octave> On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 19:11 -0700, Henry F. Mollet wrote: > According to 'test' in gnuplot in AquaTerm and X11 a text label can be > rotated by 90, 45 and -45 degrees. I have no problems in AquaTerm with the > default which is +90 but how do I specify +45 and -45. I had no luck with > "45" nor "+45". > Henry > N.B. Greek A is the same a latin A in symbol font and so are '=' and '2'. > > Octave 2.1.71/gnuplot 4.0/AquaTerm 1.0 > octave:40> gset label 4 "A/a=2" at 0.1, 0.12 rotate font "Symbol,14" > octave:41> replot > octave:42> gset label 4 "A/a=2" at 0.1, 0.12 rotate "45" font "Symbol,14" > octave:43> > gnuplot> set label 4 "A/a=2" at 0.1 , 0.12 rotate "45" font "Symbol,14" > ^ > line 0: extraneous or contradicting arguments in label options > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. > > Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org > How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html > Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------