Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot
Date: 1997/04/10

> > does anybody know if there is possibility to have vertically labeled
> > y-axes in LaTeX plots without using postscript? I tried
> > "set terminal mf", but macro "put_text" in the source "mf" file had
> > not worked and result was plot without text at all. Seems like a bug.
>
>There is no possibility to get vertical text in LaTeX without using
>Postscript, sorry.

This answer is a bit misleading. Perhaps it should have been stated as

"There is no way to make gnuplot produce vertically labeled
 axes without using gnuplot's PostScript terminal."

The graphicx package (distributed with LaTeX) has a \rotatebox command which rotates text, graphics, etc to any angle. Not all DVI drivers support rotated text, but \rotatebox will work on any that does.

Keith