Re: 90-deg rotated tick mark labels

[Ben Abbott]

On Sep 8, 2011, at 10:40 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

>> On Sep 8, 2011, at 9:58 AM, indium wrote:
>> 
>>> Dear all,
>>> 
>>> There is a 'rotation' property of text, but not of the tick labels.
>>> Can this be added?
> 
> On 8 September 2011 09:20, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Octave isn't able to do this in a convenient way.
> 
> Should we add this to the wishlist? I recently had to use matplotlib
> for plotting, and they do have a rotation property for tick labels.
> Seems like a desirable thing.
> 
> - Jordi G. H.


I have a faint recollection that this has been asked for in the past, and 
gnuplot can handle rotated ticlabels ...

        http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo/histograms.html

... so I think adding this to the wish list is a good idea.

Ben