Re: Version 5: Dashes, Monochrome, Postscript

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

On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 15:05:20 -0700
Ethan A Merritt <merritt@u.washington.edu> wrote:

> On Monday, 23 June, 2014 15:01:16 Philipp K. Janert wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 14:45:37 -0700
> > Ethan A Merritt <sf...@us...> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Monday, 23 June, 2014 14:20:48 Philipp K. Janert wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 23:10:32 +0200
> > > > Christoph Bersch <us...@be...> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > Zitat von "Philipp K. Janert" <ja...@ie...>:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Is there a way to turn on "dashed" plot styles
> > > > > > again, without having to individually set each
> > > > > > line separately?
> > > > > 
> > > > > You can use
> > > > > 
> > > > > set for [i=1:8] linetype i dashtype i
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks, that (mostly) works.
> > > 
> > > For now I recommend
> > >    load '.../share/colors_mono.gp'
> > 
> > Unfortunately, that breaks on gp5rc1 with the following 
> > message:
> > 
> > gnuplot> set linetype 4 lt 1 lw 2.5 lc rgb "black"
> >                         ^
> >          "Gnuplot-Workspace/gnuplot-5rc1/gnuplot-5.0.rc1/share/colors_mono.gp",
> > line 8: linetype definition cannot use linetype
> 
> Sigh. Yeah.  That got fixed later but missed the -rc1.
> The script as it currently exists in CVS is:
> 
> #
> # Provide a consistent set of four distinguishable
> # black line types.
> # NB: This does not work with "set term post mono"
> #
> unset for [i=1:8] linetype i
> set linetype 4 dt 1 lw 2 lc rgb "black"
> set linetype 3 dt 3 lw 1.5 lc rgb "black"
> set linetype 2 dt 2 lw 1.5 lc rgb "black"
> set linetype 1 dt solid lw 1 lc rgb "black"
> set linetype cycle 4
> #
> set palette gray
> 

Thanks - I'll check out the CVS version.