From 2a59cb2e6760cc43f1a28d553dbe6c94c381de3b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Hoffmann <2836374+timhoffm@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2024 00:36:40 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add marker-only and line+marker visuals to the plot() plot
 types

Inspired from the discussion in #27765: We should visually communicate
that `plot()` covers all three variants: markers only,
line+markers, line-only.
They are visually distinct enough that it's not possible
to infer the variants if you see only one.
In particular, it's important to communicate that you
can draw markers only. We don't want to automatically drive people who
want markers (e.g. some discrete measurements of a dependent variable y
(x)) to scatter because that's the only one showing
 discrete markers in the overview.
---
 galleries/plot_types/basic/plot.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/galleries/plot_types/basic/plot.py b/galleries/plot_types/basic/plot.py
index 3808137e52fd..e494fdf24918 100644
--- a/galleries/plot_types/basic/plot.py
+++ b/galleries/plot_types/basic/plot.py
@@ -13,12 +13,16 @@
 
 # make data
 x = np.linspace(0, 10, 100)
-y = 4 + 2 * np.sin(2 * x)
+y = 4 + 1 * np.sin(2 * x)
+x2 = np.linspace(0, 10, 25)
+y2 = 4 + 1 * np.sin(2 * x2)
 
 # plot
 fig, ax = plt.subplots()
 
+ax.plot(x2, y2 + 2.5, 'x', markeredgewidth=2)
 ax.plot(x, y, linewidth=2.0)
+ax.plot(x2, y2 - 2.5, 'o-', linewidth=2)
 
 ax.set(xlim=(0, 8), xticks=np.arange(1, 8),
        ylim=(0, 8), yticks=np.arange(1, 8))