Just brain-storming here... What about two rcparams: cycle.color = true and
cycle.style = false?

This way, cycling for both colors and line styles could be turned on and off
accordingly.  Then, a b&w mode could utilize this. as well as possibly
substitute default values.

Ben Root

On Thursday, August 25, 2011, Eric Firing <efir...@hawaii.edu> wrote:
> On 08/25/2011 04:09 AM, Benjamin Root wrote:
>> I am currently in the process of a paper submission, and the page charge
>> estimation took us for a bit of a surprise.  Luckily, most of my plots
>> don't need color, and I would like to regenerate them in b&w mode.
>>
>> Is there some default line style cycle (I.e., ['-', '.', '--', '.-'])
>> that can be set analogous to the color cycle used by default?
>
> Something like this came up a while ago as a feature request--same sort
> of motivation, I think--but it was never implemented.
>
> You could make a little function that would operate on line objects,
> changing colors from the color cycle to black while using those colors
> to specify line styles.
>
> Eric
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ben Root
>
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