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Frequently I have to visualize multiple datasets simultaneously, usually in ListPlot or its Log-companions. Since the number of datasets is usually larger than the number of easily distinguishable line styles and creating large plot legends is still somewhat unintuitiv I am still searching for a good way to annotate the different lines/sets in my plots. Tooltip is nice when working on screen, but they don't help if I need to pritn the plot. Recently, I played around with the Mesh option to enumerate my datasets and found some weird stuff GraphicsGrid[Partition[Table[ListPlot[ Transpose@ Table[{Sin[x], Cos[x], Tan[x], Cot[x]}, {x, 0.01, 10, 0.1}], PlotMarkers -> {"1", "2", "3", "4"}, Mesh -> i, Joined -> True, PlotLabel -> "Mesh\[Rule]" <> ToString[i], ImageSize -> 180], {i, 1, 30}], 4]] The result looks like this on my machine (Windows 7 x64, Mathematica 8.0.1): Funnily, for Mesh->2, 8 , and 10 the result looks like I expected it, the rest does not. Either I don't understand the Mesh option, or it doesn't understand me. Here are my questions: is Mesh in ListPLot bugged or do I use it wrongly? how could I x-shift the mesh points of successive sets to avoid overprinting? do you have any other suggestions how to annotate/enumerate multiple datasets in a plot?

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