Re: aquaterm plot display--no axis labels appear

[Ben Abbott]

On Jul 29, 2009, at 1:42 PM, Elizabeth Clark wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I’m running Octave version 3.2.0 installed from a MacOS X ready to  
> run binary. It’s set up with Gnuplot version 4.2.5 from the same  
> binary distribution. I’m using AquaTerm as my display app and have  
> the following lines in the Gnuplot start script
>
>     DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH="${ROOT}/lib:${DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH}" \
>        open "${ROOT}/lib/AquaTerm.app"
>
> When I use the plot command in Octave, the plot appears as expected,  
> but when I then type in
>
> hold on
> xlabel(‘x’)
> ylabel(‘y’)
> title(‘title’)
>
> The labels generally don’t appear or are cutoff. It looks like the  
> labels are probably plotting outside of the AquaTerm window. The old  
> click-and-expand approach of making the window bigger just makes the  
> plot with its truncated boundaries bigger—still no labels.
>
> Any idea what I need to do to extend the plotting space visible in  
> AquaTerm?
>
> Your help is much appreciated!
>
> Liz

Hi Liz,

Unfortunately, gnuplot doesn't always place the ticklabels and  
axeslabels in a consistent fashion. For example with aquaterm there is  
more space between the plot box and and the labels. This has the  
undesired effect of pushing the text beyond the edge of the figure.

To change the behavior, you can modify the figure position property  
by ...

        position = get (gcf, "position");
        set (gcf, "position", position + [0.05, 0.05, -.05 -.05])

That should resolve your problem.

You might also try running x11 and using the x11 terminal instead.

To switch to the x11 terminal ...

        close all
        setenv ("GNUTERM=x11")

Ben