label problem

[Ben Abbott]

On Feb 13, 2008, at 2:13 PM, gareth wrote:

> Help:
> I recently downloaded Octave-3.0.0 and its gnuplot for use with Mac  
> OSX
> 10.3.9.
> Most things work just fine but I do have  a basic problem with axis
> labels, shown below for
> both aqua and x11 setups.  Can you tell me what the problem and cure
> are, please?
>
> Many thanks,
> Gareth  Wlliiams
> Princeton.
>
> arrows ^^^ should line up with font f.
>
>
> AQUA:
>
> gar:8>> xlabel("XXX")
>
> gnuplot> set xlabel "XXX" textcolor lt -1 font "helvetica,10";
>                                                                       ^
>                 line 10101: unexpected or unrecognized option
>
>
>
> X11:
>
> gar:2>> xlabel("XXX")
>
> gnuplot> set xlabel "{/helvetica XXX }" textcolor lt -1 font
> "helvetica,10";
>
>                     ^
>                line 10101: unexpected or unrecognized option
>

Garth,

I believe you are trying to use the deprecated syntax.

The current syntax is documented at the link below.

http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Plot-Annotations.html#Plot-Annotations

Ben