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Re: rgb

From	Jörg Buchholz <bookwood4new@freenet.de>
Newsgroups	comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot
Subject	Re: rgb
Date	2024-04-30 07:12 +0200
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 29.04.2024 16:50, db wrote:
> In a script intended to plot two sets of data points,
> the plotting statement is
> 
> plot 'plotII.dat'  w p pt 7 rgb "blue",\
>      'plotIII.dat' w p pt 7 rgb "red"
> 
> This produces the following error message.
> 
> gnuplot> plot 'plotII.dat'  w p pt 7 rgb "blue", 'plotIII.dat' w p pt 7 
> rgb "red"
>                                      ^
>          line 0: unexpected or unrecognized token: rgb
> 
> But if I remove the second half, from the comma
> onwards, it does plot the first set as blue points.
> Why is this, and what should I do?
>

morning,

you must put a "lc" for linecolor in front of the rgb.

plot 'plotII.dat'  w p pt 7 lc rgb "blue",\
     'plotIII.dat' w p pt 7 lc rgb "red"

Jörg

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rgb db <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> - 2024-04-29 14:50 +0000
  Re: rgb Jörg Buchholz <bookwood4new@freenet.de> - 2024-04-30 07:12 +0200
    Re: rgb db <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> - 2024-04-30 08:35 +0000
      Re: rgb Karl Ratzsch <mail.kfr@gmx.net> - 2024-04-30 21:30 +0200

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