Re: line width?

[Huaiyu Zhu]

Larry,

Thanks for the answer.  It's cool and quite expandable. I've made a little
bit of modification to suit my needs.  Here's the new one:

# Futz with .eps files that come out of gnuplot
{
  if ($1=="%%BoundingBox:") { $2 = 40; $3=80;}
   if ($1=="/gnulinewidth")  $2="40.0";
   if ($1=="/dl")            $2="{30"; 
   if ($1=="/LT0")           $1="/LTc { AL [] 0 0 0 DL } def\n/LT0"; 
   if ($1=="LTb")            $1="LTc"; 
   print $0;
}
 
1. For landscape plots the BoundingBox is a little different.
2. I want a thicker plot line but a thin coordinate box, so I added a new
   line type LTc.

Question: How to change the dash segment length independently of the
spacing between dashes?  /dl seems to control both.

BTW, is there a good file format that can store simple graphics
information in an intuitive manner?  xfig is too cryptic, postscript is
too general and low level, pics in tex is too tedius ...  If there was
such a thing it is very simple to write a translator to postscript using
perl, and octave would have a completely controllable graphical end.

Huaiyu

On Mon, 8 Feb 1999 address@hidden wrote:

> Huaiyu Zhu -
>  
> > How do I change line width in plots?  I've tried to look in both octave
> > and gnuplot but don't seem to find an answer.
> 
> You might not like my answer, but ...
> 
> I use awk on the .eps output.  Sometimes I get carried away:
> 
> # Futz with .eps files that come out of gnuplot
> {
>    if ($1=="%%BoundingBox:") $2=70;
>    if ($1=="/gnulinewidth")  $2="10.0";
>    if ($1=="/dl")            $2="{30";
>    print $0;
> }
> 
> Of course, I automate all of this in a makefile, so to
> recover from a "make clean", it automatically runs octave -q,
> postprocesses the .eps with awk (unless I piped the plot
> directly through a filter), and regenerates the paper with LaTeX.
> 
> Other people don't have to be so abstruse.  I find it helps
> me save disk space, and forces me to document exactly how
> I did each calculation, so I can come back to it a year later
> without making a fool of myself.
> 
>     - Larry
>