Re: [Gnuplot-info] color blindness and gnuplot default colors

[H. G. A. <as...@gm...>]

Hi Micha,

This is a good idea. As far as I know you can "pseudo-implement" that
by seting the .gnuplot file (or GNUPLOT.INI) in your home directory:

"[...] If the initialization file is found, `gnuplot` executes the
commands in it.
 These may be any legal `gnuplot` commands, but typically they are limited to
 setting the terminal and defining frequently-used functions or variables."

(see help .gnuplot for further details).
Cheers,

Hernán



On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Micha Wiedenmann <mw...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
>  gnuplot default colors seem to be
>
>  1 red
>  2 green
>  3 blue
>  4 magenta
>  5 cyan
>  ...
>
>  I think it would be helpful for people with color blindness to change
>  that order into
>
>  1 red
>  2 blue
>  3 magenta
>  4 cyan
>  5 green
>
>  This makes the clas of red and green less likely.
>
>  A workaround is using linetype in the plot command as in
>
>  plot [][-1:1] sin(x), cos(x) lt 3, tan(x) lt 4, x lt 5, x**2 lt 2, x**3
>
>  or defining line styles
>
>  set style line 2 lc 3
>  set style line 3 lc 4
>  set style line 4 lc 5
>  set style line 5 lc 2
>  set style increment user
>  plot [][-1:1] sin(x), cos(x), tan(x), x, x**2, x**3
>
>  But this is lots of work on a day by day basis and I see no argument
>  against change gnuplots default, at least moving green down in the color
>  list.
>
>  Best regards, Micha
>
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