Re: [Gretl-users] gnuplot shaded areas

Thank you, Allin; this works. What I am wondered aboit ist that on Linux the error message is much clearer and helpful than on Windows. The one linux is: <ERROR> plot \ ^ "/home/artur/.gretl/gpttmp.LQy4tc", line 25: invalid character \ *** error in function DMplot, line 53 > gnuplot </ERROR> The one on Windows was not really helpful. But I guess this is gnuplot- related, right? Artur Am 11.08.2014 um 18:33 schrieb Allin Cottrell: > On Mon, 11 Aug 2014, Artur T. wrote: > >> I trying to plot a matrix where the last two columns contain >> information on confidence intervals which I would like to plot as a shaded area. >> >> I wrote a script, but the pdf is not properly compiled giving me an >> error msg which I don't fully understand. I attached a script which >> requires the matrix to plot and the path where to store the pdf as inputs. >> >> Unfortunately I can't figure out where the error is. > > When you want to write a backslash for line-continuation in a gnuplot > script via gretl's "printf" command, you need to double it since > backslash is the escape character. So, for example: > > printf "plot \\\n" > printf "'-' using 1:2:3 w filledcurve lt 8, \\\n" > > and so on. > > Allin Cottrell > _______________________________________________ > Gretl-users mailing list > Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu > http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users > _______________________________________________ Gretl-users mailing list Gretl-users(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-users