From p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk  Wed Jun  3 20:58:32 1998
From: p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard BSA)
Date: 03 Jun 1998 21:58:32 +0200
Subject: lty
In-Reply-To: Bill Simpson's message of Wed, 3 Jun 1998 14:32:37 -0500 (CDT)
References: <Pine.OSF.3.95.980603142647.5513A-100000@io.uwinnipeg.ca>
Message-ID: <x2btsas1ef.fsf@blueberry.kubism.ku.dk>

Bill Simpson <wsimpson@uwinnipeg.ca> writes:

> > 	lty=1 solid
> > 	lty=2 dashed
> > 	lty=3 dotted
> > 	lty=4 dotdashed
> > 	lty="1" pattern: 1 "dot" on, 1 "dot" off
> > 	lty="2" pattern: 2 "dots" on, 2 "dots" off
> > 	lty="3" pattern: 3 "dots" on, 3 "dots" off
> > 	lty="32" pattern: 3 "dots" on, 2 "dots" off
> > 	lty="124" pattern: 1 on, 2 off, 4 on, 1 off, 2 on, 4 off, 
> > 	...and so forth...
> 
> Peter, to me (and this is English language) "dot" is shorter than "dash"!
> .-.--
> dot dash dot dash dash.

Sure

> So "dot" SHOULD be label for lty="2" pattern: 2 "dots" on, 2 "dots" off
> And "dash" SHOULD be label for lty="3" pattern: 3 "dots" on, 3 "dots" off.
> Since dot is shorter than dash.
> 

Look again: 2 is a number, selecting one of 4 preset patterns, "2" is
a character, specifying the pattern directly.

Try
 plot(1:10,type='l',lty=2,lwd=4)
 plot(1:10,type='l',lty=3,lwd=4)
 plot(1:10,type='l',lty='2',lwd=4)
 plot(1:10,type='l',lty='3',lwd=4)

> This is answer to previous posting on lwd.  So it is there, just not
> documented. Thanks.

In the snapshots, it is there... Don't know if it works on postscript
yet, though.


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Peter Dalgaard BSA