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linedetails

Virtually every ploticus attribute that produces lines has an accompanying linedetails specification for controlling line appearance details such as color and thickness.

Examples

Prefab example: linedet2="color=green width=0.5"
Script example: frame: color=green width=3 style=3 dashscale=4.5

Note that settings are separated from each other by space, but settings themselves contain no embedded whitespace. Also, the entire specification must be on one line.

Settings

color= color

specifies the color of the line.

width=w

specifies the line width. w is a number between 0.1 (very thin line) to 10 or so (fat line). A typical default value is 1.0.

style=n

specifies the dashing style. n is an integer 0 - 9 that controls the dash pattern of the line:

    0 = solid line   1 = _ _ _ _ _  2 = __ __ __ __  3 = ___ ___ ___
    4 = _._._._._   5 = __.__.__.  6 = ___.___.___  7 = _.._.._.._..
    8 = __..__..__  9 = ___..___..__.

dashscale=z

controls scaling of the dash pattern. 1.0 is the default, 2.0 doubles the length of the segments, 3.0 triples it, etc.

Suppressing the line

A linedetails specification of no or none may often be given to completely suppress the line in question; likewise yes often may be used to indicate that the line use all of the default detail settings.

Illustration

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