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 Default styles are chosen with the `set function style`
 (Note: function style ) and  `set data style` (Note: data style )
 commands.  See `plot with` (Note: with ) for information about how to
 override the default plotting style for individual functions and data sets.

 Syntax:
       set function style <style>
       set data style <style>
       show function style
       show data style

 The types used for all line and point styles (i.e., solid, dash-dot, color,
 etc. for lines; circles, squares, crosses, etc. for points) will be either
 those specified on the `plot` (Note: plot ) or  `splot` (Note: splot )
 command or will be chosen sequentially from the types available to the
 terminal in use.  Use the command `test` (Note: test ) to see what is
 available.

 None of the styles requiring more than two columns of information (e.g.,
 `errorbars` (Note: errorbars )) can be used with splots or function
 plots.  Neither ther `boxes` (Note: boxes ) nor any of the `steps`
 (Note: steps ) styles can be used with splots.  If an inappropriate style is
 specified, it will be changed to `points` (Note: points ).

 For 2-d data with more than two columns, `gnuplot` (Note: gnuplot ) is picky
 about the allowed `errorbar` styles.  The `using` (Note: using ) option on
 the plot command can be used to set up the correct columns for the style you
 want.  (In this discussion, "column" will be used to refer both to a column in
 the data file and an entry in the `using` list.)

 For three columns, only `xerrorbars` (Note: xerrorbars ),  `yerrorbars`
 (Note: yerrorbars ) (or errorbars), boxes, and `boxerrorbars`
 (Note: boxerrorbars ) are allowed.  If another plot style is used, the
 style will be changed to `yerrorbars`.  The `boxerrorbars` style will
 calculate the boxwidth automatically.

 For four columns, only `xerrorbars`, `yerrorbars` (or `errorbars`),
 `xyerrorbars` (Note: xyerrorbars ),  `boxxyerrorbars`
 (Note: boxxyerrorbars ), and boxerrorbars are allowed.  An illegal style
 will be changed to `yerrorbars`.

 Five-column data allow only the `boxerrorbars`, `financebars`
 (Note: financebars ), and `candlesticks` (Note: candlesticks )
 styles.  (The last two of these are primarily used for plots of financial
 prices.)  An illegal style will be changed to `boxerrorbars` before plotting.

 Six- and seven-column data only allow the `xyerrorbars` and `boxxyerrorbars`
 styles.  Illegal styles will be changed to `xyerrorbars` before plotting.

 For more information about error bars, please see `plot errorbars`.

boxerrorbars

boxes

boxxyerrorbars

candlesticks

dots

financebars

fsteps

histeps

impulses

lines

linespoints

points

steps

vector

xerrorbars

xyerrorbars

yerrorbars