Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ pgfplots

[woltan]

Hey folks,
I am using the pgfplots package and I realy like its features! However, I ran into two "problems":
1: On the right y axis there appears to be an artifact about half way up where the line is replaced by some sort of hexagon.
Here the manual: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphic ... fplots.pdf
2: I have set up cycle list, where all my preferences concering the line styles and markers are beeing set. On every new axis environment the plots get the styles I specifed. However, is there a way to tell the the plots inside a new axis environment to start with the 3. element in the cycle list?

simplified example:
cycle list = {*, +, o, #}

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\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}
\addplot coordinates{...}; %this has '*'-style
\addplot coordinates{...}; %this has '+'-style
\end{axis}
\begin{axis}%[set option so that the first plot has 'o'-style]
\addplot coordinates{...}; %this has '*'-style but I want it to have 'o'-style
\addplot coordinates{...}; %this has '+'-style but I want it to have '#'-style
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}

I hope I could express myself for you to understand me.
Any help or advice, suggestion or opinion is appreciated!!
cherio Woltan

[josephwright]

Please post a complete example: snippets do not help.

[woltan]

Ok here goes the complete plot I have so far:

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\pgfplotstableread{NatFlow.data} \table

\pgfplotsset{
every axis/.style={height = 7cm, width = \textwidth,
xtick = {1,...,7},
/pgfplots/clickable = {false}
},
every axis y label/.append style={
text width = 3cm, 
text centered}
};

\begin{axis}[xlabel = Some Label, ylabel = Some Label, axis y line = left, ymin = -0.7, ymax = -0.2]

\addplot table[x=Dist,y=cp1] from \table;
\addplot table[x=Dist,y=cp2] from \table;

\end{axis}

\begin{axis}[axis x line = none, axis y line = right, ylabel = Some Label, ymin = 0.3, ymax = 1.1, legend style={at={(0.5,1.05)}, anchor = south, legend columns = 4}]


\addplot coordinates{}; % *See remark
\addplot coordinates{}; % *See remark

\addplot table[x=Dist,y=cd1] from \table; 
\addplot table[x=Dist,y=cd2] from \table; 
\legend{$\overline{c}_{p,b1}$,$\overline{c}_{p,b2}$,$\overline{c}_{w,1}$,$\overline{c}_{w,2}$}
\end{axis}

Without the two empty addplot commands (marked with a comment) in the second axis environment the style of the not empty addplot commands would be the same as the ones in the first axis environment. pgfplots gives me two warnings for those empty plots but I need them in order to form a valid legend. I know I could explicitly tell how the plots should look like but I'd rather not want to do that because:
1: If I should decide to change my cycle list in the preamble it would not affect this plot
2: I would not be able to place a single legend since one can only place a legend for one axis environment.

So I hope this clears things up and I am anxiously waiting for your suggestions!!
cherio Woltan

[josephwright]

Please provide a full example, starting with \documentclass and ending with \end{document}. We don't know what else might be going in your document otherwise.