Am 23.03.2023 um 16:02 schrieb climnios(a)providence.edu: In general, this is not true; but I'm not doubting your problem, so please tell us more details about what you are doing exactly. Do you have monthly, quarterly data or what? Which gretl version are you using? And so on. If the data is public or you can reproduce your problem with one of the example datasets, that would also be useful. thanks sven

Thanks, Chris, that's very clear. We'll investigate the problem. I wouldn't exactly say the post-edit dates are "jumbled" though; they're still in the right order, but squashed into each other. Anyway it's something that needs to be fixed. Allin On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 8:46 PM <climnios(a)providence.edu&gt; wrote: > > Hello Sven! Thank you for replying to my query so quickly. > > It is daily data (5-day). It is the spread between the discount rate and the overnight reverse repo rate. I actually just downloaded the most recent snapshot a couple of days ago. Checking "about gretl" reveals it is version 2023a, with a build date of 2023-03-02. > > The data is indeed public as it comes from FRED. I just signed up for the forum, so I am not sure of how to attach .png files. The best I can do is place the two images in my dropbox and send you a link for them. Here is the image that comes out of just doing the basic plot with no editing where the dates come out fine on the x-axis > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/qrc4x8hdkspomqh/Forum%20Q1.png?dl=0 > > and here is the image when I apply my edits; as you can see, the dates go from slightly diagonal, which I like, to horizontal with jumbling > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/l3qr4o3fg1w056s/Forum%20Q2.png?dl=0 > > Let me know if there's a way to upload the images directly to the forums, or if you prefer I upload them through a different shareable medium. > > Thanks again for any help! > > Best, > > Chris

OK, I see exactly what's going on here. When you edit a plot via the GUI we try to ensure that all the plot details remain the same except for anything explicitly changed via the editor. However, we're failing to preserve the command to rotate the x-axis tics that was present in the original plot. So the tics are reverting to the gnuplot default of unrotated, and they mash into each other. We'll fix this asap, but in the meantime here's a workaround. 1. Given a "broken" plot, displayed in the GUI, right-click and select "Save to session as icon". Close the plot's window. 2. Open the icon view window ("View/icon view" menu item), right-click on the plot's icon and select "Edit plot commands". 3. In the gnuplot command editor that appears, look for a line starting with "set xtics". Insert a new line underneath this one, with this content: set xtics rotate by -45 and save the plot commands via the save button on the toolbar. 4. Now if you go back to the icon view window and double-click to display the plot, the rotated tics will be restored. Allin On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 1:26 AM A. Tarassow <atecon(a)posteo.de&gt; wrote: > > Hi all, > > > and here is the image when I apply my edits; as you can see, the dates > > go from slightly diagonal, which I like, to horizontal with jumbling > > > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/l3qr4o3fg1w056s/Forum%20Q2.png?dl=0 > > > > Actually, I have also experienced such behavior recently with latest > gretl (git version) and gnuplot 5.4.3. Currently, I can't remember when > exactly this does happen but if I find that case, I'll report it here. > > Artur