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.TH linedetails PL "15-JAN-2008   PL ploticus.sourceforge.net"


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

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.SH Examples
Prefab example: \fC linedet2="color=green width=0.5"\fR
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Script example: \fCframe: color=green width=3 style=3 dashscale=4.5\fR
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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.

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.SH Settings

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\fBcolor\fR=
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.IP \0
specifies the color of the line.  

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\fBwidth\fR=\fIw\fR
.IP \0
specifies the line width. \fIw\fR is a number between 
0.1 (very thin line) to 10 or so (fat line).  A typical default
value is \fC1.0\fR.

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\fBstyle\fR=\fIn\fR 
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specifies the dashing style.
\fIn\fR is an integer 0 - 9 that controls the dash pattern of the line:
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.ft C
    0 = solid line   1 = _ _ _ _ _  2 = __ __ __ __  3 = ___ ___ ___
    4 = _._._._._   5 = __.__.__.  6 = ___.___.___  7 = _.._.._.._..
    8 = __..__..__  9 = ___..___..__.
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\fBdashscale\fR=\fIz\fR  
.IP \0
controls scaling of the dash pattern. 1.0 is the default,
2.0 doubles the length of the segments, 3.0 triples it, etc.

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.SH Suppressing the line
A linedetails specification of \fCno\fR or \fCnone\fR may often be given 
to completely suppress the line in question; likewise \fCyes\fR often may be used 
to indicate that the line use all of the default detail settings.

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.SH Illustration
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