## linedetails

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Manual page for linedetails(PL)

Virtually every ploticus attribute that produces lines has an accompanying linedetails specification for controlling line appearance details such as color and thickness.``

## Examples

Prefab example: `linedet2="color=green width=0.5"`
Script example: `frame: color=green width=3 style=3 dashscale=4.5`

Note that settings are separated from each other by space, but settings themselves contain no embedded whitespace. Also, the entire specification must be on one line.``

## Settings

color= color

  specifies the color of the line.

width=w

  specifies the line width. w is a number between 0.1 (very thin line) to 10 or so (fat line). A typical default value is `1.0`.``

style=n

  specifies the dashing style.`` n is an integer 0 - 9 that controls the dash pattern of the line:

          0 = solid line   1 = _ _ _ _ _  2 = __ __ __ __  3 = ___ ___ ___
          4 = _._._._._   5 = __.__.__.  6 = ___.___.___  7 = _.._.._.._..
          8 = __..__..__  9 = ___..___..__.

  ``

dashscale=z

  controls scaling of the dash pattern. 1.0 is the default, 2.0 doubles the length of the segments, 3.0 triples it, etc.``

## Suppressing the line

A linedetails specification of `no` or `none` may often be given to completely suppress the line in question; likewise `yes` often may be used to indicate that the line use all of the default detail settings.``

## Illustration

lines
data display engine
Copyright Steve Grubb

Markup created by unroff 1.0, `` `` August 23, 2005.