\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 [-12:-1] 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(sqrt(4-x)/(sqrt(12+x)-4)) lt rgb "#FFAA00" \end{gnuplot}