Just following up, because I never did get it done at the time … I can create a graph with the points defined by both colour, and fill, in order to represent two different factors at once:
Ideally, I would like to be able to colour and fill the ellipses using the same pattern: i.e.
factor 1: ellipse line blue or black
factor 2: ellipse filled / not filled. The fill to be less intense than the blue/black colours used for the points and for the ellipse lines.
Would I be better off doing this by creating shapes and placing them on the graph instead?
thanks v much