Re: fill pattern

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Monday 28 August 2006 12:57 pm, Dhiman Barman wrote:
> Hi All,
>        Another challenge I am facing, how to arrange the legends
> from bottom to top. 

Please use the "help" utility.

"help set key" will tell you that the option you are asking
about is
	set key invert




> 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?
>
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Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle WA