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From: sfeam <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net>
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Subject: Re: setting absolute size of point (or circle) with autoscaled xrange
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Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 10:29 -0800
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fearless_fool wrote:

> On Thursday, 7 February 2013 09:04:31 UTC-8, sfeam  wrote:
>> See "help set style circle"
>> 
>>   set style circle radius screen 0.01
>>   plot "-" using 1:2 with circles
> 
> Well, heck yeah!  That IS a lot easier -- thank you.
> 
> To push the question a bit further: If I want to use *two* different
> circle styles whose sizes are given in terms of screen coordinates, is
> there a way to set up multiple styles?  Conceptually along the lines of
> (yeah, I know this doesn't actually work):

You could fake it by plotting one case with circles and the other case
with ellipses that just happen to be circular:

  set style circle radius screen 0.01
  set style ellipse size screen 0.02, screen 0.02 units xx

But if you want a third case then you're out of luck :-)

	Ethan