Re: fill pattern

[Dhiman B. <dh...@ca...>]

Hi All,
       Another challenge I am facing, how to arrange the legends 
from bottom to top. So, if red is the first color used 
in the leftmost bar (similarly for a pattern), I want it to be 
bottom most legend and not the top most as you might have seen 
in the figs, c.eps or c2.eps. 

Thanks,
Dhiman	
       


On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 02:48:52PM -0500, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> Ethan Merritt wrote:
> >On Friday 25 August 2006 04:04 pm, Dhiman Barman wrote:
> >
> >> Two items with legends w and m have the same fill pattern. The plot
> >>is at http://www.caida.org/~dhiman/c.eps
> >>
> >> What could be the reason ? Is it a feature or bug ?
> >
> >
> >There are only 8 patterns.  Successive plots cycle through them.
> 
> First, 8 is rather low, but hey, how many patterns can there be, right?  
> So, a combination of patterns and colors should cover enough I would think. 
> (And there might even be an argument for not having so many patterns 
> because if the box is small, it is kind of difficult to tell exactly what 
> the pattern is.)
> 
> However, if one looks at the example
> 
> 	http://www.caida.org/~dhiman/c.eps
> 
> you'll see that the w/m (second 'm' of 'm s i g') confusion is a result of 
> the pattern being blank, i.e., no pattern.  The problem with that even 
> though the color may be modulating with the pattern "blank" has no color to 
> modulate.
> 
> I'd say "blank" should not be a pattern.  Could it instead by a pattern of 
> dots or circles?  (Dots would give more variety and be distinguishable from 
> lines, even for small boxes.)
> 
> Dan
> 
> PS:  Another question about this example:  Why does the fourth column from 
> the right not reach as high as the rest?