Michael Okuntsov

Thanks, but I'm using pngcairo to insert into MS Word.

Thanks, but I'm using pdfcairo to insert into MS Word.

Thanks for the reply. Here's my situation in brief: I generate gnuplot scripts automatically (via Python) for 50–1000 datasets with very different Y-axis ranges: from 0:10 to 1e5:5e20 or -1e-5:5e-5. I can't manually tune each script. Using set format y "%g" gives me inconsistent styles: for 0:10 I get nice integers, for large/small ranges I get 1e-5, 5e20, etc. However, my report format requires tick labels like: −1·10⁻⁵ or 1·10²⁰, not 1e-5. The %h format is almost perfect, but it uses a cross (×)....

"providing an explicit tick format" - yes, but if you have a lot of auto-generated gnuplot scripts, you'll need an automatic format, something like "%g" (which the "h" modifier is doing, but with a cross), and you can't provide it for tick formatting.

"providing an explicit tick format" - yes, but if you have a lot of auto-generated gnuplot scripts, you'll need an automatic format, something like "%g" (which the "%h" is doing, but with a cross), and you can't provide it for tick formatting.

"providing an explicit tick format" - yes, but if you have a lot of auto-generated gnuplot scripts, you'll need an automatic format, something like "%g", and you can't provide it for tick formatting.

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