Offsets

The amount of the graph that the plot takes up may be controlled to some extent with the set offsets command. This command takes four offset arguments: <left>, <right>, <top> and <bottom>. By default, each offset is 0. Each offset may be a constant or an expression. Left and right offsets are given in units of the x axis, while top and bottom offsets are given in units of the y axis. The plot of sin(x), displayed with offsets of 0, 0, 2, 2 will take up 1/3 of the displayed y axis. Offsets are particularly useful with polar coordinates as a means of compensating for aspect ratio distortion. Offsets are ignored in splots.

Syntax:

        set offsets <left>, <right>, <top>, <bottom>
        show offsets