From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Tue Nov 4 15:17:19 1997 Subject: linewidth with gnuplot From: Andy Adler To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 14:21:46 -0700 (MST) Hi all, I'm having some trouble interfacing octave to gnuplot. In gnuplot, if I want to make thicker lines I can do gnuplot> plot "/tmp/oct-29730aaa" with lines linewidth 1 or by defining a linestyle with thicker lines gnuplot> set linestyle 1 linewidth 5 gnuplot> plot "/tmp/oct-29730aaa" with lines linestyle 1 however, octave doesn't accept either of these approaches octave:22> gplot data with lines linewidth 1 error: `linewidth' undefined near line 22 column 23 error: evaluating expression near line 22, column 23 error: evaluating plot style command octave:22> gset linestyle 1 linewidth 5 octave:23> gplot data with lines linestyle 1 error: `linestyle' undefined near line 23 column 23 error: evaluating expression near line 23, column 23 error: evaluating plot style command unfortunately, gnuplot doesn't let you use "set linewidth" the way you can "set pointsize" otherwise I could do that first. So, my problem is how to get octave to accept the gnuplot syntax. I'm prepared to do some source hacking if someone can show me where to hack. [on a side note, if you abbreviate linestyles by ls in the gplot command octave tries to ls the directory octave:29> gplot data with lines ls 1 ls: 1: No such file or directory error: evaluating plot style command and if you put it in quotes you get another bizarre error octave:29> gplot('data with lines linestyle 1') line 0: undefined variable: t ] Thanks for your help _____________________________________________________________________ Andy Adler, | Pulmonary Physiology Unit | Lab 303-398-1626 adlera at njc dot org| | National Jewish Center,Denver,USA | National Jewish Center,Denver,USA | Fax 303-398-1607 Unfortunately, the facts pay no attention to what we can imagine. -Geza Szamosi, "The Twin Dimensions"