Re: [Q] gnuplot features in Mathematica 3.x
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- Subject: [mg9643] Re: [Q] gnuplot features in Mathematica 3.x
- From: Kevin Gross <kc144 at sprynet.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 19:49:53 -0500
- Organization: Sprynet News Service
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Leonid Razoumov wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > there are two nice GNUplot features which I miss in Mathematica. > > 1). Gnuplot allows to combine different line-styles with different > point-styles, thus making a large number of distinct line-styles > available for several curves on one plot. E.g. --x---x---x---x > is a style made of a line ------ and points "x x x". > > 2). For each curve on a plot GNUplot puts in the upper right corner a > label of the form "---- name", where "----" is a sample of actual > line style the reffered curve and "name" is a user-defined tag. > > I am not yet very experienced with Mathematica, therefore I hope there > is a way in Mathematica 3.0 to achieve the same effects but I do not > know how. > > Any suggestions/tips/recommendations are HIGHLY appreciated. > > Thank you in advance for your time, > Leo 1) If you are plotting your own data, i.e. not plotting functions using Plot[], <<Graphics`MultipleListPlot works great. There are many options that allow customization in symbols and line dashing. If you are plotting using the Plot[] command, things are a bit more tricky. Can accomplish this using PlotStyle to generate different line thicknesses, line colors, and line dashing. Not sure about incorporating other shapes such as "--x--x--x--". 2) I had some success using the <<Graphics`Legend package. See Mathematica 3.0 Standard Add-on Packages book. Seem to remember that the legend created kept track of the specific dashing of each line on the plot but did not keep track of different colored lines. Didn't seem to keep track of line thicknesses either. Hope this helps, Kevin Gross