latex - Using gnuplot, how to obtain a PDF with canvas size, including the texts?

Question

Question

I want

neither

nor

Description

The first figure is what I want.
The second figure is obtained by

set terminal cairolatex pdf
set output 'cairolatex.pdf'
set xlabel '$sigma$'
set ylabel '$alpha$'
plot 'data' u 1:2 w l

For the third figure, first

set terminal cairolatex pdf
set output 'cairolatex.tex'
set xlabel '$sigma$'
set ylabel '$alpha$'
plot 'data' u 1:2 w l

Then

pdflatex plot.tex

where plot.tex is

documentclass{article}
usepackage{graphics}
egin{document}
input{plot.tex}
end{document}

Edit: Thanks to Ethan, I can reach

by

set term pdf size 10cm,7cm
set output 'term.pdf'
set xlabel '$sigma$'
set ylabel '$alpha$'
plot 'data' u 1:2 w l

But I want to use latex typesetting for xlabel and ylabel.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65867455/using-gnuplot-how-to-obtain-a-pdf-with-canvas-size-including-the-texts

Answer 1

OK, revised answer to produce a figure using TeX typesetting. Several gnuplot terminals could do this but I recommend using tikz.

set term tikz standalone size 12cm, 7cm
set output 'figure.tex'
set xlabel '$sigma$'
set ylabel '$alpha$' offset -2
set xrange [1:7]
set lmargin 12
set border lw 2
plot 10.**x title '$10^x$'
unset output
!pdflatex figure