Linestyle Keyword

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Linestyle Keyword

Used With Routines: BAR3D, BOXPLOT, OPLOT, PLOT, PLOTS, POLYFILL, SURFACE

Corresponding System Variable: !P.Linestyle

Specifies the linestyle used to draw the lines or connect data points.

note	For UNIX users, the line join style is “miter,” i.e., the outer edges of two lines extend to meet at an angle. For Windows users, the line join style is “round.”

The linestyle index is an integer, as shown in Table 21-2: Available Linestyles on page 2005.

Table 21-2: Available Linestyles
Index	X Windows Style	Windows Style
0	Solid	Solid
1	Dotted	Short dashes
2	Dashed	Long dashes
3	Dash dot	Long-short dashes
4	Dash-dot-dot-dot	Long-short-short dashes
5	Long dashes	Long dashes

The Windows linestyles are only available on Windows platforms and affect only the following device drivers:

WIN32—The standard windows display driver.

WMF—The Windows Metafile driver.

PM—The PixMap driver.

All other device drivers use the UNIX linestyles exclusively.

The Windows drivers listed above use the Windows linestyles by default. You may force the Windows drivers listed above to use the UNIX linestyles by setting the PV-WAVE system variable !UNIX_LINESTYLES to 1. (Default: !UNIX_LINESTYLES = 0)

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