Hi Marcus, That's almost it! So ncol and column do the same thing in different functions... gah!
Because my real use of xyplot I override the default plotting colors and character, autokey doesn't 'know' this, so they don't match. So the addition of the par.settings element is needed (from another e-mail): xyplot(1~1, auto.key=list( bty='n', columns=4, text=c('How','to make','this into', 'a grob?'), space="top") par.settings=simpleTheme(pch=rep(c(15,17),2),col=c('brown','green','blue','red') ) My legend is flat and color coordinated now. Thank you very much! -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Creating-a-flat-legend-grob-for-lattice-xyplot-tp3699235p3699351.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.