-serrbar- is a historical hangover. It
is not, I guess, general enough to do
what you want, and I don't think the
documentation claims otherwise.
What you want is just a composite -twoway-,
I imagine.
Nick
[email protected]
Clint Thompson
> I am using Intercooled v.8.2.
> I have a question regarding the rendition of points (means) when using
> the -serrbar- command. In my standard error bar chart, I have two
> separate machines that I want to plot on the same chart (no problem
> there), although I want the mean values to be represented differently,
> say, a solid circle for one machine and a hollow circle for
> the other.
> When I option the command with -mvopts(msymbol(o Oh))- the points are
> not changed, although when I omit the 'o' from the preceding
> option the
> points do change (for both mvars). Does anyone have any
> suggestions on
> how I can denote the mvar points w/ two different symbols??
> Parenthetically, my data is stored in four columns, the first denoting
> the mean value, the second the standard deviation, the third
> the machine
> type (two machines, the values of which are repeated down the column),
> and the fourth is flow (range from 12 to 30 in increments of 2 and
> again, repeated for each value of machine).
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