gnuplot: italics in a portion of a label
gnuplot, plot
Solution
Usually you can use the enhanced text mode to change the font for parts of a string:
set termoption enhanced
set xlabel "not italics, {/Times-Italic italics}"
Unfortunately, that behaviour is not supported by all terminals, see bold enhanced text in gnuplot and the related bug report #1240.
It works e.g. with the `postscript` and `png` terminals, but does not work with `pngcairo` and `pdfcairo`.
Problem
Sorry for the (probably) basic question but I'm just getting started with gnuplot. What I'd like is to create an axis label with a portion of it in italics. Something like: xlabel: Not italics, italics I understand it's easy to set a label to display italics (set xlabel font "Times-Italic", 20), but is it possible to have only a portion of the label in italics?