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Re: usersym keywords -- why? [message #63562 is a reply to message #63436] Tue, 11 November 2008 10:48 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Craig Markwardt is currently offline  Craig Markwardt
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On Nov 10, 6:04 pm, Christopher Thom <ct...@oddjob.uchicago.edu>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Debugging some code today, I discovered what I would consider to be
> strange behaviour. Although...maybe this is a "feature". Consider the
> following:
>
> usersym, [ -1, 0, 1, -1 ], [ 1, -1, 1, 1 ], thick = 20
> plot, findgen(10), ps=8, thick = 2
>
> Is there any reason why usersym accepts thickness and color keywords? And,
> more importantly, why the keywords passed to plot/oplot don't over-ride
> them?
>

Well for example, sometimes I want a /FILLed symbol, but I don't want
the whole plot to be a giant filled polygon.
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