Putting a box around the legend
This recipe is a simple modification of the previous one, but gets its own section because the legend in the box is such a popular style (for better or worse).
How to do it…
Replace the highlighted set key command in the previous recipe with the following two commands:
set key spacing 3 font "Helvetica, 14"
set key box lt -1 lw 2
How it works…
The new command is in the second line. set key box tells gnuplot to draw a box around the legend; this is followed by two specifications for the type of line from which the box will be drawn. In the previous command, we have used abbreviations: lt stands for linetype, and a linetype ...
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