From b6da96fb78d36d11c59d4d6bd9389900bc5e595b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon Christ <SimonChrist@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 14:58:03 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add area legend for shapes

---
 src/backends/pgfplotsx.jl | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/backends/pgfplotsx.jl b/src/backends/pgfplotsx.jl
index 422e1c27..9b6dbbd5 100644
--- a/src/backends/pgfplotsx.jl
+++ b/src/backends/pgfplotsx.jl
@@ -537,6 +537,9 @@ function _update_plot_object(plt::Plot{PGFPlotsXBackend})
                             "color" => opt[:linecolor],
                             "scatter" => nothing,
                         )
+            if st == :shape
+                push!(series_opt, "area legend" => nothing)
+            end
             if opt[:marker_z] !== nothing
                 push!(series_opt, "point meta" => "explicit")
             end