> I found this in the online documentation of the pylab.plot() function:
>
> The following line styles are supported:
>
> - : solid line
> -- : dashed line
> -. : dash-dot line
> : : dotted line
> . : points
> , : pixels
> o : circle symbols
> ^ : triangle up symbols
> v : triangle down symbols
> < : triangle left symbols
> > : triangle right symbols
> s : square symbols
> + : plus symbols
> x : cross symbols
> D : diamond symbols
> d : thin diamond symbols
> 1 : tripod down symbols
> 2 : tripod up symbols
> 3 : tripod left symbols
> 4 : tripod right symbols
> h : hexagon symbols
> H : rotated hexagon symbols
> p : pentagon symbols
> | : vertical line symbols
> _ : horizontal line symbols
> steps : use gnuplot style 'steps' # kwarg only
>
> The following color abbreviations are supported
>
> b : blue
> g : green
> r : red
> c : cyan
> m : magenta
> y : yellow
> k : black
> w : white
>
> In addition, you can specify colors in many weird and
> wonderful ways, including full names 'green', hex strings
> '#008000', RGB or RGBA tuples (0,1,0,1) or grayscale
> intensities as a string '0.8'. Of these, the string
> specifications can be used in place of a fmt group, but the
> tuple forms can be used only as kwargs.
>
> Line styles and colors are combined in a single format string, as in
> 'bo' for blue circles.
>
> The **kwargs can be used to set line properties (any property that has
> a set_* method). You can use this to set a line label (for auto
> legends), linewidth, anitialising, marker face color, etc. Here is an
> example:
>
> plot <http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/matplotlib.pyplot.html#-plot>
> ([1,2,3], [1,2,3], 'go-', label='line 1', linewidth=2)
> plot <http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/matplotlib.pyplot.html#-plot>
> ([1,2,3], [1,4,9], 'rs', label='line 2')
> axis <http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/matplotlib.pyplot.html#-axis>
> ([0, 4, 0, 10])
> legend<http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/matplotlib.pyplot.html#-legend>
> ()
>
> HTH,
> -- jv
>
Thanks for the reply. Those are the formatting codes one can use by
default. However, there are only 4 dash types accessible from these codes:
solid, dashed, dash-dot, dotted. I think there is a way to set arbitrary
dash-dot lines (say, '-..-....-') using the 'setp' command with the 'dashes'
argument. I just don't know what acceptable parameters for that argument
are. I'm hoping someone knows.
Thanks,
John
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