set default line width?

[Alan G Isaac]

Is it possible to reset the default line width for
function plots? I wanted something along the lines
of, say,
set style function lines lw 2
(which is invalid, needless to say).

Motivation: a collection of graphs with color
plots, which look better (I believe) with a
thicker line (particularly when displayed
by projector).

Thanks,
Alan Isaac

[Ethan Merritt]

In article <opruix6v...@supernews.american.edu>,

Alan G Isaac <ais...@american.edu> wrote:
>Is it possible to reset the default line width for
>function plots? I wanted something along the lines
>of, say,
>set style function lines lw 2

Not the default, no.
But you can define arbitrary line styles using
set linestyle <index> lw 2 <more properties>
and then use these in your plots
plot 'file1' with ls 1, 'file2' with ls 2
--
Ethan A Merritt

[Alan G Isaac]

> In article <opruix6v...@supernews.american.edu>,
> Alan G Isaac <ais...@american.edu> wrote:
> >Is it possible to reset the default line width for
> >function plots? I wanted something along the lines
> >of, say,
> >set style function lines lw 2

On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 18:56:54 +0000 (UTC), mer...@u.washington.edu (Ethan Merritt) wrote:
> Not the default, no.
> But you can define arbitrary line styles using
> set linestyle <index> lw 2 <more properties>
> and then use these in your plots
> plot 'file1' with ls 1, 'file2' with ls 2

Thanks. I knew about that.
But this still requires an intervention for each plot,
which I was trying to avoid.

Just curious: is there a reason gnuplot does not
allow something like this?

set style function lines lw 2

It seems very useful to be able to reset the "default".

Thanks,
Alan Isaac

[Ethan Merritt]

In article <1103_10...@supernews.american.edu>,

I cannot think of a fundamental reason, although it
would probably require changing every terminal driver
separately. That rather puts one off tackling the
code unless there is a strong need for it.
Furthermore, once you open that door then it would
seem natural to allow changing the default values of all
settable properties, and that would be a huge amount of
work.

It might be easier (though not necessarily preferable)
to make it a terminal option:
set term postscript color solid lw 2
or something like that. In fact, the postscript code
generated by gnuplot already has an internal variable of
this sort called "userwidth", but there is no way to set
it from inside gnuplot.
--
Ethan A Merritt