Indeed, it was my fault. This option is supposed to be applied in the context of:

"set style line 1 lc rgb "#ff0000" pointtype 2"

And in this way it works fine...

Artur


2013/4/30 Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu>
On Tue, 30 Apr 2013, artur tarassow wrote:

> I would like to set the point type for a simple scatter plot, but it does
> not work. I've got something like:
>
> gnuplot XY --output=display { set pointtype 1 ; }

That's not a valid gnuplot command.

waverley:~$ gnuplot

         G N U P L O T
         Version 4.7 patchlevel 0    last modified 2012-06-19
         [...]

Terminal type set to 'wxt'
gnuplot> set pointtype 1
              ^
          Unrecognized option.  See 'help set'.

Allin Cottrell
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