Re: Tabs in label/title with pgnuplot (Windows)

Embo <emboman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> When I have tabs (\t) in xlabels, titles, etc. in a gnuplot script, the
> tabs appear in the image as the two letters N and L, with the N above
> the L, when I use pgnuplot.exe on Windows to run the script.

You shouldn't (have to) use pgnuplot.exe to run scripts. pgnuplot is for
piping commands into gnuplot. For ordinary batch usage, just

wgnuplot script.plt

should do just fine.

> Has anyone seen this before? Is there a work-around, or am I doing
> something wrong?

It's at least questionable to expect a text terminal control character
like TAB to work in an environment like that of a graphic generated by
gnuplot. If you want white space, I would suggest you use blanks
instead.

> I use Gnuplot version 4.0 patchlevel 0 on both platforms (Windows XP
> Professional SP2 and Solaris 10), and the png terminal.

And you're sure it's the same PNG terminal being used on both? Please
check 'show version long' output to be sure.

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