[Tex/LaTex] Centering a gnuplot figure properly

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I use gnuplot and its epslatex terminal. When I include a gnuplot-generated figure in my document and center it as usual, it often appears shifted right — because the labels on the left contribute to the LaTeX-calculated figure width:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}

\lipsum[1]

\begin{figure}
  \caption{I am visually shifted right!}
  \centering
  \input{myplot}

  % Plot source:
  % 
  % set terminal epslatex color
  % set output 'myplot.tex'
  % set format '$%g$'
  % set ylabel 'A label'
  % plot 100000 * sin(x) title '$100000 \sin x$'
  % 
\end{figure}

\end{document}

The result:

Result

The question is: how does one properly align such a plot, so that the center of the plot matches the center of the page horizontally? (Inserting a matching negative horizontal space manually doesn't count. (-:)

Best Answer

You can set the margins of the plot in gnuplot using lmargin at screen 0 and rmargin at screen 1.0, so that the plot takes up the entire canvas. The labels will still be placed correctly:

epslatex gnuplot properly centred

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