Re: Colors in plots and legend position

[Henry F. Mollet]

In Gnuplot try
gnuplot> test
Will give available colors. Test results will depend on terminal e.g. X11
vs. Aquaterm will give slight differences. Octave will use these colors say
in a contour plot requiring lots of colors by default.
Henry


on 9/21/05 8:44 AM, Jonathan Stickel at address@hidden wrote:

> Javier Arantegui wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I'm pretty sure that these questions have been discused in the list before
>> but 
>> I haven't been able to find the messages in the archive :-(
>> 
>> I'm using Octave 2.9.3.
>> 
>> I am programing a function that plots a graphic and I need more than 6
>> colors. 
>> Is possible to use more than 6?
>> 
>> 'help plot' says:
>> 
>> "   `C'
>>           If C is one of `"r"', `"g"', `"b"', `"m"', `"c"', or `"w"',
>>           it is interpreted as the plot color (red, green, blue,
>>           magenta, cyan, or white)."
>> 
>> OK. But, below that you can read:
>> 
>> "     The color line styles have the following meanings on terminals that
>>      support color.
>> 
>>           Number  Gnuplot colors  (lines)points style
>>             1       red                   *
>>             2       green                 +
>>             3       blue                  o
>>             4       magenta               x
>>             5       cyan                house
>>             6       brown            there exists"
>> 
>> That is a little bit inconsistent because in one of the cases there is white
>> but in the other it mutates to brown.
>> 
> 
> Some terminals have more than 6 colors, and the colors change depending
> on the terminal.  Try running gnuplot by itself and then issue the
> command "test".
> 
>> Another question, is possible change the place where the legend is written
>> withou use the command 'legend' from octave-forge?
>> 
> 
> You can use the gnuplot command (in octave)
> 
> __gnuplot_set__ key <options>
> 
> The gnuplot manual, while not exactly easy reading, is useful when
> wanting to do things that are not implemented yet in Octave.  It can be
> found here:
> 
> http://www.gnuplot.info/documentation.html
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> 
> 
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