I'm plotting a multiplot in GNUPLOT and in order to save space, I only plot the axis labels on one of the plots. For the other plots, I overwrite the tics-labels using
set ytics ("" -20, "" -15, "" -10, "" -5, "" 0, "" 5, "" 10, "" 15, "" 20)
For a small scale like this, its doable manually. Can I use a gnuplot built-in (for-loop) to dynamically write this "range"?
Yes, you can, with something like
numtics = 8
set macros
ticstring = '('
do for [i=0:numtics] {
ticstring = ticstring.'"" '.(-20 + i*5).', '
}
ticstring = ticstring.'"" 20)'
set ytics @ticstring
What may be simpler in your case would be the command
set ytics format "" 5
Which will put a tic every 5 with a blank label.
I think that it is MUCH easier to just do something like:
set multiplot layout 1,2
set xtics format "" #no x-tic labels on the top plot
plot sin(x) #top plot
set xtics format "%g" #x-tic labels on the bottom plot
plot cos(x) #bottom plot
unset multiplot
