Change actual space between tics in gnu plot

Question

Example x-axis:

Before:

|____|____|____|
10  20   30   40

After:

|______________|______________|______________|
10            20             30             40

I have been searching for a while and have only found out how to scale everything else except the size between tics as simply as possible.

I don't desire to change the canvas size, the terminal size, the tic size, the number of tics etc... I want to stretch the x axis out. I don't care how big it makes the window.

Answer 1

Generally you want to use the size parameter to the set terminal command to stretch everything out in one direction. For example,

set terminal aquaterm size 500,500

makes a square plot, and

set terminal aquaterm size 1000,500

makes a plot that is twice as wide as it is high.