Newbie question: plotting boxerrorbars with user-defined linestyle

[Thomas Halva Labella]

I had to plot some data using boxerrorbars style. I didn't manage to do 
it using plot() (and I had few time to try hard), so I did it with:

   gplot my_data with boxerrorbars

my_data has five columns, for x,y, low and high value for errorbars and 
boxwidth.

Then I had to change the thickness of the line in the plot. First I gave 
the command

   gset linestyle 1 linetype 1 linewidth 3

and then I discovered that Octave doesn't accept the command

   gplot my_data with boxerrorbars linestyle 1

I read on the mailing list archive that there it is not planned to 
modify this beahviour. If this is still valid I have the following 
questions:

- how do I plot boxerrorbars with plot()? Commands like 
"plot(my_data,"#~")", plot(my_data(:,1),my_data(:,2:5),"#~")" or 
"plot(my_data(:,1),my_data(:,2),my_data(:,3),my_data(:,4),my_data(:,5),"#~")" 
don't work, Octave tells me "error: invalid number of data columns = 2 
specified for plot style `boxerrorbars'".

- how can I use my own linestyles with plot()?

Thanks a lot!
Halva




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