GNUPlot Manual

108 gnuplot 4.0 36 SET-SHOW
in the preambel of your latex document. ’dashed’ will allow dashed line types; without this option,
only solid lines with varying thickness will be used. ’dashed’ and ’color’ are mutually exclusive; if
’color’ is specified, then ’dashed’ will be ignored. ’rotate’ will enable true rotated text (by 90 degrees).
Otherwise, rotated text will be typeset with letters stacked above each other. If you use this option
you must include \usepackage{graphicx} in the preamble. ’small’ will use \scriptsize symbols as point
markers (Probably does not work with TeX, only LaTeX2e). Default is to use the default math size.
’tiny’ uses \scriptscriptstyle symbols. ’default’ resets all options to their defaults = no color, no dashed
lines, pseudo-rotated (stacked) text, large point symbols. is a number which specifies the
font size inside the picture environment; the unit is pt (points), i.e., 10 pt equals approx. 3.5 mm. If
fontsize is not specified, then all text inside the picture will be set in \footnotesize.
Notes: Remember to escape the # character (or other chars meaningful to (La-)TeX) by \\ (2 backslashes).
It seems that dashed lines become solid lines when the vertices of a plot are too close. (I do
not know if that is a general problem with the tpic specials, or if it is caused by a bug in eepic.sty or
dvips/dvipdfm.) The default size of an eepic plot is 5x3 inches, which can be scaled by ’set size a,b’.
Points, among other things, are drawn using the LaTeX commands "\Diamond", "\Box", etc. These
commands no longer belong to the LaTeX2e core; they are included in the latexsym package, which is
part of the base distribution and thus part of any LaTeX implementation. Please do not forget to use
this package. Instead of latexsym, you can also include the amssymb package. All drivers for LaTeX
offer a special way of controlling text positioning: If any text string begins with ’{’, you also need to
include a ’}’ at the end of the text, and the whole text will be centered both horizontally and vertically.
If the text string begins with ’[’, you need to follow this with a position specification (up to two out of
t,b,l,r), ’]{’, the text itself, and finally ’}’. The text itself may be anything LaTeX can typeset as an
LR-box. ’\rule{}{}’s may help for best positioning.
Examples: set term eepic
output graphs as eepic macros inside a picture environment;
\input the resulting file in your LaTeX document.
set term eepic color tiny rotate 8
eepic macros with \color macros, \scripscriptsize point markers,
true rotated text, and all text set with 8pt.
About label positioning: Use gnuplot defaults (mostly sensible, but sometimes not really best):
set title ’\LaTeX\ -- $ \gamma $’
Force centering both horizontally and vertically:
set label ’{\LaTeX\ -- $ \gamma $}’ at 0,0
Specify own positioning (top here):
set xlabel ’[t]{\LaTeX\ -- $ \gamma $}’
The other label – account for long ticlabels:
set ylabel ’[r]{\LaTeX\ -- $ \gamma $\rule{7mm}{0pt}}’
36.59.17 Emf
The emf terminal generates an Enhanced Metafile Format file. This file format is the metafile standard
on MS Win32 Systems Syntax:
set terminal emf {} {solid | dashed}
{""} {}
is either color or monochrome; solid draws all curves with solid lines, overriding any dashed
patterns; is the name of a font; and is the size of the font in points.
The first two options can be in any order. Selecting default sets all options to their default values.
Examples:
set terminal emf ’Times Roman Italic’ 12
set terminal emf color solid # no pesky dashes!