Controlling markertype and linestyle in plotyy

Hi all
I am using plotyy in the following way:
[AX,H1,H2] = plotyy(x1,y1,x2,[y2a y2b],'plot')
How do I assign different linestyle and markertype to the lines [y2a y2b]?
Cheers
Jakob

 Accepted Answer

Here's one way:
x1 = 1:10;
y1 = 2:11;
x2 = 1:5;
y2a = 2:6;
y2b = 3:7;
figure
[ax h1 h2] = plotyy(x1,y1,x2,[y2a;y2b])
set(h1,'Marker','.','MarkerSize',8)
set(h2(1),'Marker','.','MarkerSize',24)
set(h2(2),'Marker','.','MarkerSize',48)
Note that I could instead have combined the setting of the Marker property for all objects like this:
set([h1;h2],'Marker','.')

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Brilliant. Thank you very much! I have been struggling with this one for a while.

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If you read the manual (doc plotyy) it tells you exactly how to do it in the example
set(H1,'LineStyle','--')
set(H2,'LineStyle,':')

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Notice that he wants to potentially set H2(1) and H2(2) to two different values, which is not so obvious.

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Im sorry, I should have been more specific: I know how to change the linestyles between H1 and H2. My question is: In this case I have 2 separate lines under H2. Is it possible to change the linestyle of those individually? Essentially what I would like to achieve is plotting these three lines with distinct line/marker features, without resorting to the user-contributed function "plotyyy".

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