Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.42!gegeweb.eu!nntpfeed.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!198.186.194.250.MISMATCH!news-out.readnews.com!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: bryan Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot Subject: filledcurve with fsteps Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 19:20:49 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 31 Message-ID: <28255776.2746.1333851649194.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@vbbdy9> NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.62.36.14 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1333852107 1062 127.0.0.1 (8 Apr 2012 02:28:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2012 02:28:27 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.62.36.14; posting-account=PtxH9gkAAAAGMw6wJDvB_vinyKd1zCKS User-Agent: G2/1.0 Xref: csiph.com comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot:1027 gnuplot 4.6.0 It seems that 'filledcurve' will work with 'fsteps' to color the steps in to look like rectangles, but it's not clear from browsing the newsgroup. so far, I can get the step to look OK but the filled part looks like a triangle instead of a rectangle, e.g. : set timefmt "%d %m %Y" set xdata time set format x "%d/%m\n%Y" set style fill transparent solid 0.5 noborder plot \ 0 w l lt -1 notitle, \ 0 w l lt 0 notitle, \ 'data.dat' u 1:4 w fsteps lt 1 notitle, \ '' u 1:4 w filledcurve lt 1 notitle data.dat: 30 12 2011 0 24 03 2012 0 24 03 2012 0 06 04 2012 200 07 04 2012 300 07 12 2012 . 08 01 2012 . 09 01 2012 . .... it would be helpful to know for sure if fsteps and filledcurves are compatible - esp. b/c it sounds like 'fsteps' might not really create closed polygons, and 'filledcurves' fills, well, curves, if it is to be taken literally. -Bryan p.s: sorry about the previous post - I deleted it when I browsed into the transparency demos. but thanks.