On Mon, 3 Oct 2011, artur bala wrote: > Hi, > I'm not sure what's going on there, but i'm using the following gnuplot line > command inside a function. The plot comes out like a beauty but gretl pops an > error message "Failed to parse gnuplot file". > By the way, can someone tell me how to break the following command into 2-3 > lines (I tried with "\", "\\","/","//" with no success :( > > gnuplot 5 4 --matrix=my_data --with-lines --suppress-fitted {set title > 'Lorenz Curve'; set grid; set yrange [0:1]; set xrange [0:1]; set xlabel > 'percentage of cumulated population'; set ylabel 'percentage of cumulated > income'; show xlabel; show ylabel} 1. The line continuation character in gretl is '\', a single backslash. 2. All the additional gnuplot commands inside {...} must be terminated with a semi-colon; that's missing from your last command. 3. You don't want to use "show xlabel" or "show ylabel". Look at the gnuplot help to see what "show" does -- it's not what you think! So: gnuplot 5 4 --matrix=my_data --with-lines --suppress-fitted \ --output=display {set title 'Lorenz Curve'; set grid; \ set yrange [0:1]; set xrange [0:1]; \ set xlabel 'percentage of cumulated population'; \ set ylabel 'percentage of cumulated income';} Allin Cottrell _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users