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• Subject: [mg79833] Using ShowLegend
• From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
• Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 03:37:07 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
• Reply-to: murray at math.umass.edu

After loading Mathematica 6 package PlotLegends`, the following input 
gives errors of the form

   PlotLegends`Legend is not a Graphics primitive or directive.

Why, and how should one actually do this?  (The Documentation Center 
pages for ShowLegend and Legend together with the one example on the 
page for ShowLegend is not sufficient help for me.)

   ShowLegend[
     Plot[{x,x^2,x^3},{x,0,1},
       PlotStyle->{Directive[Black,Thick],Directive[Blue,Dashed],Green}
       ],
     {Blue,"x"},{Red,"x^2"},{Green,"x^3"}
   ]

Note that it does not seem to be possible to use, instead of the 
ShowLegend wrapper, the PlotLegend option within the Plot expression, as 
I seem to have no control over the styling of the labeled lines that 
appear in the legend. (At least neither the documentation for PlotLegend 
  does not indicate how to do this.)

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