Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder2.enfer-du-nord.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!news.dfncis.de!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hans-Bernhard_Br=F6ker?= Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot Subject: Re: using yerrorbars and palette Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 11:46:00 +0200 Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4DE0C458.1040606@t-online.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.dfncis.de jcD+loKZ0RNA+jPgrs7bQQkgJTfJQOoJkXuO9QYx1JGs5yonXEkWHOWXLl Cancel-Lock: sha1:WQNQm/eCg2JGiQbA4cjSbOp9B4U= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; de; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 In-Reply-To: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot:336 On 28.05.2011 05:20, Jason Quinn wrote: > set palette color > plot "data.dat" using ($1):($2):($3):($1) with yerrorbars palette > > where column 1 is the x-axis values, 2 is the y-axis values, and 3 is > the size of the error bar. It *almost* works except the error bars are > way off in size. That's because 4 columns in an errorbars plot mean something else than you assume. See "help yerrorbars" > How can yerrorbars and palette be used simulateanously to color data > and their error bars with a spectrum? They can't. Not in any but the CVS work-in-progress version of gnuplot, anyway.