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[Gnuplot-info] custom borderstyles in histograms

[Daniel G. <li...@da...>]

Hello,

I am using gnuplot 4.1 (CVS a few weeks ago).

I defined my own set of linestyles, because I do not like the standard ones. In order to be consistent my histograms should use the same linestyles (the same colors). How can I do this?

with boxes fill solid 0.5 linestyle 1: draws a box with the color from my linestyle but no border

with boxes fill solid 0.5 border 1: draws a box with linetype 1, but this is not the one I defined (I wonder why there are styles and types, whats the difference)

Regards,
Daniel.

Re: [Gnuplot-info] custom borderstyles in histograms

[<br...@ph...>]

Daniel Graupner wrote:

> I defined my own set of linestyles, because I do not like the
> standard ones. In order to be consistent my histograms should use the
> same linestyles (the same colors). How can I do this?

Define your own fill styles, too, in parallel with your own line styles.

> with boxes fill solid 0.5 border 1: draws a box with linetype 1, but
> this is not the one I defined (I wonder why there are styles and
> types, whats the difference)

linetypes are what the terminal actually supports, line styles are 
combinations of various drawing options (line type & width, point type 
and size, ...) you define yourself, as shorthand so you don't have to 
repeat long sets of options in an already rather long 'plot' command.