[Gretl-devel] Re: x-range for scatters using daily data

On Mon, 2 Mar 2020, Allin Cottrell wrote: > On Mon, 2 Mar 2020, Artur Tarassow wrote: > >> Am 02.03.20 um 10:06 schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti: >>> On Sun, 1 Mar 2020, Artur Tarassow wrote: >>> >>>>> Maybe we could find a way to show dates, but there's not much >>>>> space available in "scatters". At least now we don't over-extend >>>>> the x-axis. >>>> >>>> Maybe its beneficial to rotate the x-labels to save some space. >>>> But it has no priority I guess. >>> >>> Something like this, perhaps? >>> >>> <hansl> > [nice example script] >>> </hansl> >> >> I don't get any xtics here :-/ But apart from this: This is a very >> nice example of exploiting "scatters" for enhancing multiplots. > > Hmm, why aren't you getting any xtics? They're shown here OK. Anyway, > Jack's script might be a good approach to getting dates in place for > "scatters", maybe better than trying to use gnuplot's "timefmt". I think I found it. You should get tyhe xtics only using current git. With 2019d, the x scale is in "years", with current git is just an integer sequence. This version of the script should give you the xtics with 2019d as well: