Problem solved with babel. I was able to get everything I wanted by piecing together some examples from the mailing list and gnuplot examples/manual around the web. Thanks! On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 4:11 PM, John Hendy wrote: > Nick, > > That works from gnuplot. Not sure about orgmode... I tried > > #+PLOT: using:"2:3:xticlabels(1)" > > which is not working. There's no "using" option mentioned on worg: > http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-plot.php > > Perhaps it's not > possible? > > I could try the org-babel method but there seems to be less documentation > on this? > > John > > > On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Nick Dokos wrote: > >> John Hendy wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > I'm interested in plotting with non-numeric data for the x component of >> the data points but don't want to have the gnuplot default of automatic >> spacing. >> > Does anyone know a way to have a word displayed instead of a number but >> have the words unevenly spaced according to a "hidden value"? >> > >> > Example: >> > >> > | 1 | x: where it should be on the scale | y | >> > |---+------------------------------------+----| >> > | a | 0 | 10 | >> > | b | 10 | 20 | >> > | c | 11 | 30 | >> > | d | 40 | 40 | >> > >> > Does that make sense? If I just had the table minus the 2nd column, it >> would space a->d evenly as if they were 0,1,2,3 or something like that. I'd >> like >> > control over their spacing. >> >> Gnuplot can certainly do it, but whether you can convince org-plot/gnuplot >> to emit the right incantation, I don't know. >> >> Try the following in gnuplot >> >> plot 'foo.data' using 2:3:xticlabels(1) >> >> with the data file containing >> >> ,---- >> | a 0 10 >> | b 10 20 >> | c 11 30 >> | d 40 40 >> `---- >> >> HTH, >> Nick >> > >