[Gretl-users] about the gnuplot command in gretl

Dear gretl people, <preamble...> I have been observing the development of gretl for some time now, and last week I started to dig a little deeper. In my opinion it's very nice, because it is 1. fairly intuitive, 2. cross-platform, 3. well documented, 4. scriptable, 5. free. I think it really fills a gap in the open-source statistics world as a data browser, quick-visualizer, and manipulation tool. (So far I mostly use GiveWin for that, not liking that it only runs on Windows.) Thanks to the developer(s?) for making this program! </preamble> now for something completely different: I'm having problems with the following gnuplot command (within gretl, of course): gnuplot verteilf sortiert --with-impulses --suppress-fitted { set style data steps; } In the resulting plt file, the part in braces does not appear, although according to the manual (Aug2005) it should. Is that a bug? Secondly, if I use this one: gnuplot verteilf sortiert { set style data steps; } the part in braces appears in the plt file, but doesn't make any difference to the visual output. I suspect that's because the "steps"-setting is reverted in the plot command where it says "w points". Is there any way around this limitation? Thanks for your help! -sven