Re: set style increment user

[Christoph B. <us...@be...>]

Am 02.07.2014 16:50, schrieb Allin Cottrell:
> The above-noted "set" option is one that is gone in 5.0. I'm not sure what
> is the recommended replacement. I'm thinking of this sort of thing in
> gnuplot 4:
>
> set style line 1 <whatever>
> set style line 2 <whatever>
> set style line 3 <whatever>
> set style increment user
> plot <data1> w l, <data2> w l, <data3> w l
>
> and the 3 lines would come out in the respective 3 user-defined styles.
> Now admittedly the "increment user" thing seemed a bit odd; you might
> expect the user-defined line-styles to apply automatically. However, it
> did the job. Now that it's gone, is there a compact alternative way of
> telling gnuplot to use user-defined styles in sequence?

Now you can directly change the linetypes with

set linetype 1 <whatever>
set linetype 2 <whatever>
set linetype 3 <whatever>
plot x w l, x**2 w l, x**3 w l

Note, that these settings cannot be reverted by `reset`, but you must 
use `reset session`.

Christoph