Re: how to increase line width?

[John B. Thoo]

Thanks, Joe.  I'm not ready for this, yet.  In the meantime, I think 
that I may have found a (kludge) solution to my line width problem: 
Save the plot as an .xfig file and increase the line width in xfig.

Best regards,
---John.


On Feb 1, 2006, at 8:53 AM, Joe Koski wrote:

> John,
>
> To use Grace Plot, it must me installed. There is an easy to install 
> version
> of Grace Plot on the Apple web site,
>
>    http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/math_science/grace.html
>
> It requires X11, and has a learning curve before it is useful. Grace 
> plot
> does create good publication quality plots with much more interactive
> control than gnuplot.
>
> Joe
>
>
> on 1/31/06 9:50 PM, John B. Thoo at address@hidden wrote:
>
> > Hi, Claudio.  Thanks for your suggestions.  However, I find that
> >
> > octave:1> toggle_grace_use
> > error: `toggle_grace_use' undefined near line 1 column 1
> >
> > I also find that
> >
> > octave:1> x = linspace (0, 10, 101) ' ;
> > octave:2> plot (sin (x))
> > octave:3> hold on
> > octave:4> plot (cos (x))
> > octave:5> __gnuplot_raw__ ('replot ''''notitle with lines lw 4\n')
> > error: `__gnuplot_raw__' undefined near line 5 column 1
> >
> > I think that I have to upgrade Octave to a later version as Joe had
> > recommended.
> >
> > Cheers.
> > ---John.
> >
> >
> > On Jan 31, 2006, at 3:46 AM, Claudio Belotti wrote:
> >
> > > John B. Thoo ha scritto:
> > > > Hello.  To piggy back on this thread, I would like to plot
> > > >
> > > > x=-4:0.1:4;
> > > > hold on
> > > > plot (x, x.^2, "-r")
> > > > plot (x, 0.75 * ((2 .* x).^2).^(1 / 3) + 0.5, "-k")
> > > >
> > > > with a heavier line width for the second graph only.  How do I do
> > > > this?
> > > >  It wasn't clear to me from the description below.
> > >
> > > my choice would be to set
> > > toggle_grace_use
> > > before plotting and then edit the plot from grace,
> > >
> > > You can also do
> > > x = linspace(0,10,101) ' ;
> > > plot(sin(x))
> > > hold on
> > > plot(cos(x))
> > > __gnuplot_raw__ ('replot ''''notitle with lines lw 4\n')
> > >
> > > although I don't really understand the ''''
> > >
> > > see also:
> > > http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?action=browse&diff=1&id=CategoryFAQ
> > > http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?CategoryPlotting
> > >
> > > ciao
> > > Claudio



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