1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3 4<!--*********************************************************** 5 * 6 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 7 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 8 * distributed with this work for additional information 9 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 10 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 11 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 12 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 13 * 14 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 15 * 16 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 17 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 18 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 19 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 20 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 21 * under the License. 22 * 23 ***********************************************************--> 24 25 26 27<helpdocument version="1.0"> 28<meta> 29<topic id="textschart01type_linexhp" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 30<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Chart Type Line</title> 31<filename>/text/schart/01/type_line.xhp</filename> 32</topic> 33<history> 34<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> 35<lastedited date="2007-01-15T14:40:23">new file</lastedited> 36</history> 37</meta> 38<body> 39<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id2187566"><bookmark_value>line charts</bookmark_value> 40<bookmark_value>chart types;line</bookmark_value> 41</bookmark> 42<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id9422894" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="NEW"><variable id="type_line"><link href="text/schart/01/type_line.xhp">Chart Type Line</link> 43</variable></paragraph> 44<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id389721" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">On the first page of the <link href="text/schart/01/wiz_chart_type.xhp">Chart Wizard</link> you can choose a chart type. </paragraph> 45<section id="howtoget"> 46 <embed href="text/schart/00/00000004.xhp#wiz"/> 47</section> 48<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id9826349" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="NEW">Line</paragraph> 49<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id2334665" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">A line chart shows values as points on the y axis. The x axis shows categories. The y values of each data series can be connected by a line.</paragraph> 50<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id8956572" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Points only - this subtype plots only points.</paragraph> 51<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id500808" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Points and lines - this subtype plots points and connects points of the same data series by a line.</paragraph> 52<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id8366649" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Lines only - this subtype plots only lines.</paragraph> 53<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id476393" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">3D lines - this subtype connects points of the same data series by a 3D line.</paragraph> 54<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id2655720" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Mark <emph>Stack series</emph> to arrange the points' y values cumulative above each other. The y values no longer represent absolute values, except for the first column which is drawn at the bottom of the stacked points. If you select <emph>Percent</emph>, the y values are scaled as percentage of the category total.</paragraph> 55<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3682058" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Mark <emph>Smooth lines</emph> to draw curves through the points instead of straight lines. Click <emph>Properties</emph> for a <link href="text/schart/01/smooth_line_properties.xhp">dialog</link> to change the curves' properties.</paragraph> 56<section id="relatedtopics"> 57<embed href="text/shared/guide/chart_insert.xhp#chart_insert"/> 58<embed href="text/schart/01/wiz_chart_type.xhp#wiz_chart_type"/> 59<embed href="text/schart/01/wiz_data_range.xhp#wiz_data_range"/> 60<embed href="text/schart/01/wiz_data_series.xhp#wiz_data_series"/> 61<embed href="text/schart/01/wiz_chart_elements.xhp#wiz_chart_elements"/> 62</section> 63</body> 64</helpdocument> 65