Gnuplot: keep tics, remove labels

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The x axis on my gnuplot looks similar to this:

2 4 8 16 32 64 72 86 98 112 128 256 512 1024 … 1048576

So these are log2 values that go from 2, 4, 8 .. 1048576. The problem is that there are certain intermediate values like 72,86,98,112 etc. which are not log2 based values, and are so close to each other that the labels overlap. Is there a way I can keep the tics (i.e. plot the values) but not display the labels on the x axis?
I want to display only those labels that are an exact power of 2, but I want to show all values on the plot.

Thanks.

Best Answer

just define the xtics manually... for example:

set xtics ("2" 2,"4" 4, "8" 8,"16" 16,"32" 32,"64" 64)

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