Re: Problems with "set linetype cycle" in gp5 rc3

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

On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 17:09:49 -0800
sfeam <sf...@us...> wrote:

> On Wednesday, 10 December 2014 04:25:27 PM Philipp K. Janert wrote:
> > 
> > > > 
> > > > That strikes me as rather odd behavior. I would
> > > > have expected that "set linetype cycle" takes
> > > > precedence.
> > > 
> > > That would have the effect of disabling all linetypes
> > > higher than the cycle count.  
> > 
> > Isn't that precisely the point of "set linetype cycle"?
> > To cycle through the linetypes with an index less than
> > the cycle-period? 
> 
> Cycle through them in auto-generated plots - yes.
> But not to disable use of manually specified linetypes.
> 
> For example:
> 
> # define a linetype distinct from the normal cycle
> set linetype STANDARD lc black lw 3.0
> 
> # plot all results and superimpose the standard
> plot for [i=1,96] result(i),  'standard.dat' lt STANDARD

But for that application, wouldn't you use
linestyle (rather than linetype)?

The big distinction between linestyle and
linetype that I can see is that linetypes
are incremented automatically. Everything
that's manual I can do with linestyles.