plotting questions

[Ron Crummett]

Hello everyone -

I have been playing with some basic plotting and have a couple questions 
about it:

-We can specify different point plotting styles using flags such as '*', 
'o', '+', 'x' (and maybe others too,  but these are the main ones I've 
been playing with.  I would expect these to plot something similar on 
the plot window, but I find that
'*' plots what I would expect from 'o'
'o' plots what I would expect from '+'
'+' plots what I would expect from 'x'
'x' plots a square

It seems reasonable to me that if I am to enter "plot(x, y, 'x')" I 
should get 'x' points on the plot, but instead I get little squares.  Am 
I the only one that has this, or does something need to be changed in 
general?

-Secondly, I have noticed that when I expand a plot window, the point 
size expands.  Take the example I just laid out.  If I have a small plot 
window, I can hardly tell that they are squares, but if I expand to a 
full screen then I can tell for sure.  I prefer to have my plots small 
so that I can view them and my terminal window at the same time, but if 
I do this plotted points hardly look different from lines.  I have 
noticed that in Matlab the point plots stay the same.  Is there 
something that can be done about this?  Thanks in advance.

-Ron



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