gnuplot error: Bad format character

Question

Am new to gnuplot but need o use it urgently. This is the following set of commands I used:

set  terminal  latex
set output “conflict.tex”
set xtics (\"rando         


        

Answer 1

Recently I had the same problem with escaping ("Bad format character") in xtics().

This should work:

set xtics ("random"  2, "sharing(0\%%)"  1, ...)

What helped me, was to look at the generated tex file.