Re: Plot property: markerface vs. markerfacecolor

[Matthias Brennwald]

On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 09:59 -0400, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On  1-Nov-2007, Matthias Brennwald wrote:
> 
> | I didn't try the mentioned patch (I do not know how to use it), but I
> | upgraded to Octave 2.9.16 instead. This seems to solve the above issue.
> | However, I cannot plot data points with filled circles anymore. I used
> | to do that as follows:
> | 
> | ------------
> | h = plot(rand(1,5));        % this produces a plot with lines only
> | set(h,'marker','.','markersize',3) % in 2.9.15 this added solid circles
> | to the data points
> | ------------
> | 
> | I also tried the following, but this gives me empty circles (I used this
> | method to produce solid circles in Matlab):
> | 
> | ------------
> | h = plot(rand(1,5));
> | set(h,'marker','o','markerfacecolor','b')
> | ------------
> | 
> | So: how can I plot solid circles?
> 
> Apparently you missed my message:
> 
>   https://www.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/help-octave/2007-October/006477.html
> 
> I think the problem you mention falls into the same or a similar
> category, in that gnuplot simply has no way to plot a consistent set
> of markers for all terminal types, nor does it have a way to
> independently specify the marker face color and the marker edge color
> for any given marker.  If anyone has a quick solution for these
> problems, then please submit a patch.
> 
> jwe

No, I didn't miss that message, and I am aware that it can be tricky
(and sometimes impossible) to make gnuplot behave. What confuses me is
that with Octave 2.9.15 I was able to plot solid circles using the '.'
marker, but not with Octave 2.9.16.

Matthias