Re: enter specific symbols for ListPlot usage
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- Subject: [mg109905] Re: enter specific symbols for ListPlot usage
- From: Patrick Scheibe <pscheibe at trm.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 00:41:34 -0400 (EDT)
Hi,
have you tried to use the palette "Special Characters"?
I used double quotes and clicked on the symbol buttons in the palette.
Everything is fine.
ListPlot[{{1, 2, 3, 5, 8}, {2, 3, 6, 9, 10}, {4, 5, 7, 10, 12}},
PlotMarkers -> {"\[EmptySet]", "\[Wolf]", "\[WatchIcon]"}]
Alternatively you can input them exactly like the above code shows.
Cheers
Patrick
On Fri, 2010-05-21 at 06:46 -0400, Alessandro wrote:
> I guess this is fairly simple to answer, but I've almost thrown the
> keyboard against the wall after struggling with it - so bear with
> me...
>
> I need to produce an article-quality plot of some sets of data, so I
> prefer to choose the color/symbols used.
> Therefore, instead of the usual PlotMarkers -> Automatic, I tried to
> use something along the lines of PlotMarkers -> {"a","b","c","d"}
> where "a" etc. stand for a copy/paste from the help system of the
> special characters under:ShapesIconsAndRelatedCharacters.
>
> I tried the backslash notation. I tried using doublequotes and not
> using them.
>
> What I obtained is a wild variety of plots, not one of them correct.
> And I did not even try yet to change the symbols colors!
> Surely such a basic feature should be easier to obtain - so how do you
> fine-tunes your data plots???
>
>
> thank you!
>
>
> alessandro
>