Re: More problems with "set linetype cycle" in gp5 rc3

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

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> For instance I can use a single plot command to quickly
> screen the response curves from a 96-well experiment.
> To distinguish the "hits" from the "noise", I need at
> least 96 distinct curve types.  By default there are 
> 15 point types and 9 line types.   That's not good for
> this use, because those numbers are not relatively prime.
> They only yield 45 distinct line+point combinations.
> But if I either lower the linetype cycle to 7 or
> raise it to 11 I get 7*15=105 or 11*15=165 distinct
> curve types.

Hm...

> Adding "set pointtype cycle N" and "set dashtype cycle N"
> are on the TODO list, but the details of of how these
> would interact with each other are not fully worked out.
> I've put a patch on SourceForge for testing if you
> would like to try it. It's #708

Ok, that makes sense... as a "part of a whole",
I can see the usefulness much better.