I'm trying to plot my data which is in 'x y value' format using dashed lines. The dashed linetype I set up works with simple functions I give but when I use it on my own data it uses crosses instead of the dashed line.
I am using qt terminal on a mac running Gnuplot version 5.0.
my code:
set linetype 1 dashtype '- -'
plot 'results.txt' lt 1
This produces the following plot:
Any idea why gnuplot doesn't use my dash type?
Plotting functions has different defaults (lines, show style function
) than plotting data (points, show style data
).
Either set the plotting style directly like
set linetype 1 dashtype '- -'
plot 'results.txt' lt 1 with lines
Or set the desired style globally with
set style data lines