Re: Global style directives

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

On Sunday 06 July 2008, Philipp K. Janert wrote:
> 
> I would like to plot all data sets using a single
> point type. What I hear you say is that I can not
> use "set data style" to achieve this. Ok.

Not sure.  I still don't quite understand the effect you are
trying to achieve.  Do you want to plot data from multiple files
as if it were all part of one merged file?

You could do this, although it's awkward:

   set style line 1 pt 7
   set style line 2 pt 7
   set style line 3 pt 7
   set style line 4 pt 7
   set style increment user
   set style data point

   plot "foo", "baz", "blech", "merp"

That would give different colors though, unless you were
using a terminal set to "mono".

Easier would be simply
   plot "< cat foo baz blech merp" with points

	Ethan


> 
> On Sunday 06 July 2008 17:25, you wrote:
> > On Sunday 06 July 2008, Philipp K. Janert wrote:
> > > The command
> > > 	set data style points
> > > sets the default style for data to points.
> > >
> > > Is it somehow possible to include a point
> > > type in the global setting? Such as:
> > > 	set data style points pointtype 3
> >
> > That wouldn't make any sense.
> > If the data sets are to be plotted as points, then the points
> > must be different in order to distinguish which data set each
> > is from.
> >
> > > The command line as written does not work -
> > > is there some other syntax I am not aware of?
> >
> > What are you trying to accomplish, exactly?
>