8.19.2 with

The style in which data should be plotted may be specified following the modifier with, with the following syntax:

plot sin(x) with points

The following plot styles are recognised: lines, points, linespoints, dots, boxes, wboxes, impulses, steps, histeps, fsteps, xerrorbars, yerrorbars, xyerrorbars, xerrorrange, yerrorrange, xyerrorrange,
arrows_head, arrows_nohead, arrows_twohead, csplines, acsplines.

In addition, lp and pl are recognised as abbreviations for linespoints; errorbars is recognised as an abbreviation for yerrorbars; errorrange is recognised as an abbreviation for yerrorrange; and arrows_twoway is recognised as an alternative for arrows_twohead.

As well as plot styles, the with modifier can also be followed by the following keywords:

linetype

– specifies the line type (e.g. dotted) used by the lines plot style.

linewidth

– specifies the width of line, in pt, used by the lines plot style.

pointsize

– specifies the size of data points, relative to the default size, used by the points plot style.

pointlinewidth

– as above, but specifies the linewidth, in pt (1 pt = 1/72 inch), used to render the crosses, circles, etc, used to mark data points.

linestyle

– this can be used in conjunction with the set linestyle command to save default plot styles.

colour

– specifies the colour used to plot the dataset, either by one of the recognised colour names or by an integer, to use one from the current palette.

fillcolour

– relevant to the boxes and wboxes plot styles, specifies a colour with which bar charts should be filled.

An example using several of these keywords would be:

plot sin(x) axes x2y1 with colour blue linetype 2 \
                           linewidth 5