Hi Kay, This may be helpful, assuming your data file has resolution in column 3.
set xtics rotate by -30 plot 'file' u 1:2:xticlabels(3) Make sure you have a recent version of gnuplot. Thanks, Abhinav JCSG@SSRL, SLAC (650) 926-2992 On Jun 24, 2013, at 7:54 AM, 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 -- Kay Diederichs http://strucbio.biologie.uni-konstanz.de email: kay.diederi...@uni-konstanz.de<mailto:kay.diederi...@uni-konstanz.de> Tel +49 7531 88 4049 Fax 3183 Fachbereich Biologie, Universität Konstanz, Box M647, D-78457 Konstanz This e-mail is digitally signed. If your e-mail client does not have the necessary capabilities, just ignore the attached signature "smime.p7s".
