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Re: Setting line width increases line length

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Ivan K. wrote:

> Just before you posted that, I found the page:
> 
>   http://gnuplot.10905.n7.nabble.com/bug-or-feature-td12930.html
> 
> which addresses this exact issue.  Based on
> this page, like your suggestion, I changed:
> 
>   set term pngcairo enhanced      size 400, 200
> 
> to:
> 
>   set term png      enhanced butt size 400, 200
> 
> that is, I added "butt" to the "set term" command.
> I also changed "pngcairo" to "png" as the option "butt"
> did nothing to the resulting image with "pngcairo".

Yes.  I had forgotten that the cairo terminal interprets
"butt" on the command line as "square" internally.
The Nabble page you link to explains this clearly.
Unfortunately the suggestion given there that additional line
options  could appear in gnuplot 4.6 was not implemented.
It should go back on a wishlist for gnuplot 5.

So I'm afraid that gnuplot does not provide the detailed
control over individual line properties that you want.
If you choose an output mode that can be further edited
(notably PostScript or SVG) then you could tweak the 
result in an external tool like Acrobat or Inkscape.
It is also possible that you could customize your locally
installed PostScript prologue files to set your preferred
line attributes by default in gnuplot.

	Ethan

> 
> 
> HOWEVER, this solution only "sort of " works
> as there is now a  weird artifact at the beginning of
> each line.  Obviously, I would like to get rid of
> this artifact.
> 
> Thank you very much for your help;
> 
> :::::::::::::: line_width_02.com ::::::::::::::
> 
> set term png      enhanced butt size 400, 200
> 
> set output 'line_width_02.png';
> set nokey;
> set origin 0.0, 0.0;
> 
> plot [ 0 :30 ][ 0: 50 ] \
>      'line_width_02_01.dat' w l lt 1 lw  1,  \
>      'line_width_02_02.dat' w l lt 1 lw  7,  \
>      'line_width_02_03.dat' w l lt 1 lw 11,  \
>      'line_width_02_04.dat' w l lt 1 lw 15
> 
> :::::::::::::: line_width_02_01.dat ::::::::::::::
> 10      40
> 20      40
> 
> :::::::::::::: line_width_02_02.dat ::::::::::::::
> 10      30
> 20      30
> 
> :::::::::::::: line_width_02_03.dat ::::::::::::::
> 10      20
> 20      20
> 
> :::::::::::::: line_width_02_04.dat ::::::::::::::
> 10      10
> 20      10

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Setting line width increases line length "Ivan K." <ivan_521521@yahoo.com> - 2013-02-17 18:03 -0800
  Re: Setting line width increases line length sfeam <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net> - 2013-02-18 10:23 -0800
    Re: Setting line width increases line length "Ivan K." <ivan_521521@yahoo.com> - 2013-02-18 10:33 -0800
      Re: Setting line width increases line length "Ivan K." <ivan_521521@yahoo.com> - 2013-02-18 10:51 -0800
      Re: Setting line width increases line length sfeam <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net> - 2013-02-18 11:05 -0800
        Re: Setting line width increases line length "Ivan K." <ivan_521521@yahoo.com> - 2013-02-18 11:12 -0800
          Re: Setting line width increases line length "Ivan K." <ivan_521521@yahoo.com> - 2013-02-18 11:17 -0800

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