Dear Allin, The string, "To add your own \"bars\" to a plot, you must supply the name of a plain text file containing pairs of dates." is marked for translations, but when we use the option in Gretl plot controls (Show bars -> other) it appears in English. Best regards, Henrique C. de Andrade Doutorando em Economia Aplicada Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul www.ufrgs.br/ppge