Dashed and dotted lines (in 3.0.2)

Fredrik Lingvall fl at ifi.uio.no
Wed Sep 3 07:16:13 CDT 2008


David Bateman wrote:
> Fredrik Lingvall wrote:
>> David Bateman wrote:
>>> Fredrik Lingvall wrote:
>>>> I'm trying to plot dashed and/or dotted lines in Octave 3.0.2 but 
>>>> it don't seem to work.
>>>>
>>>> x=randn(100,1);
>>>> plot(x,'k--')
>>>>
>>>> should produce a black dashed line but I only can see a solid line 
>>>> (I'm using the Gnuplot backend).
>>>>
>>>> /Fredrik
>>>>   
>>>
>>> Gnuplot doesn't implemented dashed/dotted lines on some terminals.. 
>>> Notably on the X11 terminal. On those that support it they are 
>>> visible (eg eps)
>>>
>>> D.
>>>
>>>
>> Hm, I don't see any dashed lines in the eps-file by doing, for example,
>>
>> plot(x,'--')
>> print -F:18 -depsc test.eps
>>
>> /F
>>
>>
>
> print -dashed -F:18 -depsc test.eps
>
> D.
>
>
Thanks David!  Gnuplot "auto-selects" the dash-style though. Is there a 
way to control this (eg., select dotted/dash-dotted/dashed)?

/F



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