function set_linestyles()
%
% For the current figure, for each 'axes' within it, find
% all lines and set in turn the markers and line-colours.
%
% Nathaniel, 2009-12-25.
%

% list of colours to cycle through (each line: RGB)
% these are the matlab auto-defaults: 7 lines, then repeat:
% found by: A=sort(a.Children);for n=1:numel(A), t=[t; get(A(n), 'Color')]; end; t
C0 = [ ...
    0.00 0.00 1.00
    0.00 0.50 0.00
    1.00 0.00 0.00
    0.00 0.75 0.75
    0.75 0.00 0.75
    0.75 0.75 0.00
    0.25 0.25 0.25
    ];
% these colours correspond to  'bgrkm'
C1 = [ ...
    0.00 0.00 1.00
    0.00 1.00 0.00
    1.00 0.00 0.00
    0.00 0.00 0.00
    1.00 0.00 1.00
    ];
% these are all the combinations of 0 or 1 other than 111(white)
C2 = [ ...
    1 0 1
    0 1 1
    1 1 0
    0 0 0
    1 0 0
    0 1 0
    0 0 1
    ];
% an alternative set, chosen from colours in KDE's colour-chooser: that
% returns values in html format, three hex numbers: here's the conversion:
% for i=1:size(a,1), for j=1:size(a,2), e(i,j) = hex2dec(a{i,j})/255; end, end
C3 = [ ...
    0.18 0.07 0.86
    0.22 0.77 0.06
    0.90 0.08 0.12
    0.73 0.60 0.05
    0.72 0.09 0.74
    0.04 0.73 0.64
    ];

% choose which colour list to use
C = C0;

% list of markers to cycle through
M = 's<ov*^x>+dph';


% work on the current figure: get its properties
f = get(gcf());

% for each child of the figure,
for na = 1:numel(f.Children),

    % get details of this child-object: skip if not 'axes' object
    a = get(f.Children(na));
    if ~strcmpi(a.Type,'axes'),
        continue;
    end

    % for each child of the axes,
    n = 0;
    L = sort(a.Children);
    for nl = 1:numel(L),
        % get details of this child: skip if not 'line' object
        l = L(nl);
        if ~strcmp(get(l,'Type'),'line'),
            continue;
        end
        n = n + 1;

        set(l, 'Color', C(mod(n-1,size(C,1))+1,:));
        set(l, 'LineStyle', '-');
        set(l, 'LineWidth', 0.5);
        set(l, 'Marker', M(mod(n-1,length(M))+1));
        set(l, 'MarkerSize', 7);
        set(l, 'MarkerEdgeColor', 'auto');
        set(l, 'MarkerFaceColor', 'none');

    end

end