Re: Changing mark/space for dashed lines in plots

[Ben Abbott]

On Jul 2, 2014, at 12:35 PM, Rik <address@hidden> wrote:

> 7/2/14
> 
> All,
> 
> If you take a look at the plot comparisons for plotyy_03 at
> tech-chat.de/compare_plot_demos you will see that Octave uses a fairly
> chunky dashed line for the '--' linestyle while both gnuplot and Matlab use
> a slimmer dashed line.
> 
> It is rather easy to change the appearance of our dashed line, but I wanted
> to collect some opinions about whether to do it and which style to use if
> we do change.
> 
> Attached are three pdfs showing the various line styles.  The first is the
> current style, dash_50 uses 50% mark/50% space, dash_75 uses 75% mark/25%
> space.  Send back opinions to the maintainer's list.
> 
> Cheers,
> Rik
> 
> 
> 
> <dash_current.pdf><dash_50.pdf><dash_75.pdf>

RIk,

I prefer dash_50.pdf.

However, since we'll not all agree ... Is this something that can be set in the 
preferences?

Ben