lty
Peter Dalgaard BSA
p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk
03 Jun 1998 21:58:32 +0200
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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