\begin{gnuplot}[terminal=pdf,terminaloptions={font ",10" linewidth 2}] unset border set nogrid set lmargin at screen 0 set rmargin at screen 1 set bmargin at screen 0 set tmargin at screen 1 set yrange [-15:-4] set xrange [-4:4] set size 5/5. set key center top reverse Left set xzeroaxis set yzeroaxis set xtics axis out scale 0.5 set ytics axis plot(-x**2 +2*x -8) lt rgb "#FFAA00" \end{gnuplot}