Re: AutoIncrement with Monochrome Solid Fill Patterns

[Philipp K. J. <ja...@ie...>]

Agreed. 

Sometimes a gray-palette would be nice to have
though, simply because it looks nice (less jagged
than cross-hatch patterns).

Cross-hatch has the advantage on grayscale
that it reproduces much better under Xeroxing,
of course.

Best,

		Ph.



On Sunday 22 June 2008 22:50, you wrote:
> On Sunday 22 June 2008 19:26, Philipp K. Janert wrote:
> > Imagine I use a style that makes use of fill patterns,
> > such as one of the histogram styles.
> >
> > Let's also assume I am using a fill style "solid".
> > Using a color terminal, each new data set gets a
> > new color and everything is good.
> >
> > But if I try to export the result to a monochrome
> > terminal (eg. EPS), all distinction is of course lost.
> >
> > Is it possible to convince gnuplot not to change
> > color from data set to data set, but instead increase
> > the density (thus giving an appearance of gray scales)?
>
> No, but if you choose a pattern fill it will cycle through
> successive patterns.  See histogram2.dem
> Some terminals substitute density variation for patterns because
> they are not good at pattern-fill.