Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail
From: nilay <nilaybhatt@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot
Subject: Re: point type - hexagon/user-defined
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 21:15:44 -0700 (PDT)
Organization: http://groups.google.com
Lines: 27
Message-ID: <9e13083d-12ed-45a9-ac73-eeee9525e3bf@googlegroups.com>
References: <ca50f458-e8a5-4566-91e7-9ff3d1adcd65@googlegroups.com> <jql922$qsp$1@dont-email.me>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 180.149.51.68
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
X-Trace: posting.google.com 1339388484 26963 127.0.0.1 (11 Jun 2012 04:21:24 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 04:21:24 +0000 (UTC)
Cc: sfeam@users.sourceforge.net
In-Reply-To: <jql922$qsp$1@dont-email.me>
Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com
Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=180.149.51.68; posting-account=9r7kIwoAAABORvgcB7AZKz4vk_HGcoho
User-Agent: G2/1.0
Xref: csiph.com comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot:1196

On Tuesday, June 5, 2012 9:06:33 PM UTC+5:30, sfeam wrote:
> nilay wrote:
>=20
> > Hello,
> >=20
> > I want to plot my data points with hexagon point-type.
> > This shape is not listed in the standard point-type list.
> > How can I define it and use it?
>=20
> There is no general mechanism for defining new point shapes,
> although it can be done for some terminals (e.g. PostScript).
>=20
> However for a hexagon in particular you can use the
> following trick, assuming you have a font with the appropriate
> character.
>=20
> HEX =3D "=E2=AC=A2"	# unicode point 0x2B22 BLACK HEXAGON
>            	# UTF-8: 0xE2 0xAC 0xA2
>=20
> plot foo using 1:2:(HEX) with labels

Thanks for the reply.
How to use unicode or UTF ?=20
how to know which point-type no. gives=20
hexagon in postscript???

Thanks again.