# Change distance between dots in \`linestyle=:dot\` plotting option
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/change-distance-between-dots-in-linestyle-dot-plotting-option/86592
**Category:** Visualization
**Created:** [August 31, 2022, 11:42am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/change-distance-between-dots-in-linestyle-dot-plotting-option/86592 "2022-08-31T11:42:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Torkel](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Torkel)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2022, 11:42am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/change-distance-between-dots-in-linestyle-dot-plotting-option/86592/1 "2022-08-31T11:42:41Z")
I am plotting something like:
```julia
plot(x->x^2,lw=5,linestyle=:dot)
```
Is there some way to modify the distance between the individual dots in the plot?
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### Author:  [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2022, 12:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/change-distance-between-dots-in-linestyle-dot-plotting-option/86592/2 "2022-08-31T12:18:30Z")
A ridiculous workaround to make it denser:
```julia
using Plots; gr()
x1, x2, dx = -2, 2, 0.1
plot(x->x^2, x1:dx:x2, c=:blue, lw=3, ls=:dot)
d = (x2 - x1)/55 / 5.5 # fudge factor (depends on line width)
plot!(x->x^2, (x1 + d):dx:(x2 + d), c=:blue, lw=3, ls=:dot)
```
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### Author:  [@Ashlin\_Harris](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Ashlin_Harris)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2022, 2:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/change-distance-between-dots-in-linestyle-dot-plotting-option/86592/3 "2022-08-31T14:03:57Z")
One option is to reduce the line width, since the smaller dots will be packed in more tightly.
Do you mind posting a full example? I get a slightly different result when I run your code:
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### Author:  [@ThummeTo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ThummeTo)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2023, 6:49am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/change-distance-between-dots-in-linestyle-dot-plotting-option/86592/4 "2023-06-06T06:49:26Z")
I have the same problem (for dots as well as for dashes). Is there no parameter to adjust the space between dots/dashes? Basically `:dot` generates a line with dots with no space at all for me. Adjusting the linewidth does also affect the dot spacing, but (of course) dots become larger too which is not what I want.
Thanks in advance!
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### Author:  [@sijo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sijo)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2023, 7:15am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/change-distance-between-dots-in-linestyle-dot-plotting-option/86592/5 "2023-06-06T07:15:09Z")
Not sure abouts Plots but with Makie you can pass a vector of lenghts as linestyles, see [lines · Makie](https://docs.makie.org/stable/examples/plotting_functions/lines/index.html#linestyles)
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### Author:  [@BeastyBlacksmith](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/BeastyBlacksmith)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2023, 8:16am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/change-distance-between-dots-in-linestyle-dot-plotting-option/86592/6 "2023-06-06T08:16:33Z")
The short answer is: no, noone implemented this yet. Someday someone might have enough need to do it, but that day isn’t today.
Although with [Add extra series options at the end by BeastyBlacksmith · Pull Request #4765 · JuliaPlots/Plots.jl · GitHub](https://github.com/JuliaPlots/Plots.jl/pull/4765) it can be set via extra keywords for the pgfplotsx backend.
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### Author:  [@ThummeTo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ThummeTo)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2023, 1:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/change-distance-between-dots-in-linestyle-dot-plotting-option/86592/7 "2023-06-06T13:14:36Z")
Thanks!