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The reason it doesn't make sense is because this is a category plot we are talking about. Now of course its possible that your categories represent quantities, or years, or some other numeric data, in which case skipping labels makes sense, as a reasonably intelligent user will automatically interpo...

I agree with you there...its not good to skip categories in most cases.

However, I guess what I really need then is a horizontal stacked time series bar chart...is this possible?

I'm creating a bar chart with about 30 bars, and the labels overlap. I want to skip out every other label, but obviously can't set the label to " " as the category names need to be unique. I noticed this has been asked for before and DG said some code had been submitted into CVS to address this...an...