[Gnuplot-info] How can one modify the colors in 'plot'?

[Kevin C. <ca...@un...>]

Gnuplot is great for scientific plotting,
but often the default colors are garish.
I installed gnuplot 4.0 and can use

gnuplot -xrm 'gnuplot*line1Color:tomato' -xrm 'gnuplot*line2Color:DarkSeaGreen'

to make colors 1 and 2 as displayed by

gnuplot> test

come out as tomato and DarkSeaGreen.

But when I put this trick in my makefile

all : defects DEFECTS
.PHONY : all
DEFECTS : DEFECTS.gpt
     gnuplot -xrm 'gnuplot*line1Color:tomato' -xrm 'gnuplot*line2Color:DarkSeaGreen' DEFECTS.gpt
     gnuplot2pdftex DEFECTS
defects : defects.gpt
     gnuplot -xrm 'gnuplot*line1Color:tomato' -xrm 'gnuplot*line2Color:DarkSeaGreen' defects.gpt
     latex defects.tex
     dvips -Ppdf -j0 -G0 -E -o defects.eps defects

and then run pdflatex on my tex file,
the old garish colors, bright red and
bright green, are still there unchanged.

How can I do this correctly?

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Kevin Cahill
ca...@un...

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