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> When typing 'help boxes' we get the following explanation (I only keep the
> beginning) : 
> 
> "boxes
> 
> The boxes style is only relevant to 2-d plotting.  It draws a box centered
> about the given x coordinate from the x axis (not the graph border) to the
> given y coordinate.  The width of the box is obtained in one of three
> ways. If it is a data plot and the data file has a third column, this will
> be used to set the width of the box......"
> 
> I am very interested in the boxwidth question, but don't understand
> exactly the end (above in bold). We can put a coefficient in a third
> column in order to reduce the width od boxes ? 
> 
> thank you again
>