Hallo Lorenzo, In addition to Berts advice try > trellis.par.get("superpose.symbol") which shows the default for superposed graphics and set them with the par.settings parameter > dotplot(VADeaths, type = "o", + auto.key = list(lines = TRUE, space = "right"), + main = "Death Rates in Virginia - 1940", + par.settings=list(superpose.symbol=list(pch=1:4)), + xlab = "Rate (per 1000)") Gerrit On 05/28/2017 12:00 PM, r-help-request at r-project.org wrote:> Re: Problem with Example with Lattice