Original report at SourceForge, opened Tue Feb 23 19:46:23 2010

Currently, if I want to make a plot with multiple sets of data, and generate a good grayscale/black&white plot, I have to manually specify each line's color, line type and marker. One thing I like in gnuplot, at least for the pdf terminal, is that I can specify monochrome, which will make all of the lines black and then vary the linestyle and marker from line to line, so that if I am generating a lot of plots, they all look good when printing to a black and white printer. I found the set_color_cycle option which allowed me to use varying shades of gray, and if there were a way to specify a list for the linestyles and markers, that would probably be enough. Though it would still be nice if you could just specify grayscale or monochrome and it would automatically take care of it.

I may have missed an option somewhere and I know I could do it using python, but it would be nice if it was built in to matplotlib.

Otherwise, great work.
Andrew