Nick,

That works from gnuplot. Not sure about orgmode... I tried

#+PLOT: using:"2:3:xticlabels(1)"

which is not working. There's no "using" option mentioned on worg:
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-plot.php

<http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-plot.php>Perhaps it's not
possible?

I could try the org-babel method but there seems to be less documentation on
this?

John

On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:

> John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm interested in plotting with non-numeric data for the x component of
> the data points but don't want to have the gnuplot default of automatic
> spacing.
> > Does anyone know a way to have a word displayed instead of a number but
> have the words unevenly spaced according to a "hidden value"?
> >
> > Example:
> >
> > | 1 | x: where it should be on the scale |  y |
> > |---+------------------------------------+----|
> > | a |                                  0 | 10 |
> > | b |                                 10 | 20 |
> > | c |                                 11 | 30 |
> > | d |                                 40 | 40 |
> >
> > Does that make sense? If I just had the table minus the 2nd column, it
> would space a->d evenly as if they were 0,1,2,3 or something like that. I'd
> like
> > control over their spacing.
>
> Gnuplot can certainly do it, but whether you can convince org-plot/gnuplot
> to emit the right incantation, I don't know.
>
> Try the following in gnuplot
>
>        plot 'foo.data' using 2:3:xticlabels(1)
>
> with the data file containing
>
> ,----
> | a                                  0  10
> | b                                 10  20
> | c                                 11  30
> | d                                 40  40
> `----
>
> HTH,
> Nick
>