Line and Marker Properties Corrupt

[John W. Eaton]

On 26-Nov-2008, Peter Berntsen wrote:

| 
| I don't know if it is gnuplot or octave to blame but
| 
| t = 0:0.1:6.3;
| line(t,sin(t),'linestyle','-')
| Gives the same result as linestyle changed to:
|      Dashed lines.
| "--"
|      Points.
| ":"
|      A dash-dot line.
| "-."
| That is the line style is solid no matter what I specify.
| Linewidth works.
| 
|  plot(t,sin(t),".","markersize",3)
|  plot(t,sin(t),"+","markersize",3)
|  plot(t,sin(t),"*","markersize",3)
|  plot(t,sin(t),"o","markersize",3)
|  plot(t,sin(t),"x","markersize",3)
|  
| Gives the same results as octave: 
| plot(t,sin(t),".")
| 
| I run gnuplot 
| 	G N U P L O T
| 	Version 4.2 patchlevel 3 
| 	last modified Mar 2008
| 	System: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic
| 
| and octave:
| GNU Octave, version 3.0.1

I think the problem is that gnuplot does not provide
terminal-independent control over line styles.

jwe