Re: Using linestyle for object border

[Ethan A M. <sf...@us...>]

On Thursday, July 25, 2013 12:35:09 pm Christoph Bersch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am 25.07.2013 18:44, schrieb sfeam (Ethan Merritt):
> > On Thursday, 25 July 2013, Christoph Bersch wrote:
> >>
> >> I was wondering, why using linestyles is not allowed for object borders.
> >
> > On the other hand, so far as I can think of there is a perfectly
> > adequate work-around already available - you can plot the
> > object or graph twice, once describing the fill and a second
> > time describing the outline.   Have I missed a case where this
> > is not possible?
> 
> I don't know, what you mean. In any case specifying a line style is not 
> possible for an object, right?
> 
> I think, dashed object borders are not possible.

See attached demo and output.

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
set term pdfcairo dash dashlength 2
set output 'dash+fill.pdf'
set key box opaque

set title "Plain circles with dash linetype"
plot 'candlesticks.dat' using 1:2:(1) with circles lt 2

set title "Filled circles"
plot 'candlesticks.dat' using 1:2:(1) with circles fs solid fc rgb "yellow"

set title "Both at once"
plot 'candlesticks.dat' using 1:2:(1) with circles fs solid fc rgb "yellow", \
     '' using 1:2:(1) with circles lt 2
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%




	Ethan



> 
> It is not, that I urgently need dashed circles, but although I work a 
> lot with gnuplot, I continue struggling with the different handling of 
> some options. And this is one of them :-)
> 
> Christoph