line color given by rgb value

[Harald H. <h.h...@tu...>]

A view days ago, Ethan has told me that it is possible to give the line
color by specifying the rgb value. This is a great thing but I have not
found out how to specify the line type (i.e., dash style), too.

set style line 1 lt rgb "#000000"
set style line 2 lt rgb "#00FF00"
set style line 3 lt rgb "#FF0000"

This sequence, for instance, produces a black solid line type, a green one
with long dashes and a red one with shord dashes. But how to produce too
solid line types and then a dashed one? Do I miss something in the
documentation or is that not possible yet?

Another thing:
Why does gnuplot switch on the color palette when using an rgb-defined
color? I think it should not do that, automatically. In this code,

set output 'asdf.ps'
set terminal postscript dashed color dashlen 4
set style line 1 lt rgb "#000000"
set style line 2 lt rgb "#00FF00"
set style line 3 lt rgb "#FF0000"
plot sin(x) ls 1, cos(x) ls 2, sin(x)*cos(x) ls 3
set output

for example, the color palette is useless.

Regards
Harald

PS: Thanks, Ethan, for enhancing rgb-color specification to labels!

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