Plotstyle one line highlighted

Question

Sorry for the stupid question, I am still a total beginner with Mathematica.

I have a list line plot that has some 100-1000 lines (depending on the input). I want my for loop to automatically determine which one of these lines is "important". There are roughly 3 or 4 important lines in there.

So how do I, out of, say, 100 lines which should all show up in different colors, highlight these 3-4 in bold? I don't know beforehand which ones are important -- my for loop will find out. But I cannot write use Plot Style in the standard way {Orange, Thick, Green} because I do not even know at which position the thick line should be.

Do you know what I mean? How do I generalize a position for thick when all others are also colored, but not thick?

Thanks a lot for your help!

Answer 1

I don't know beforehand which ones are important -- my for loop will find out.

You did not give MWE. I assume you want the important line be marked as say Red, and all the others Gray?
One way, is that as you build the lines, keep track in a list called importantLines, the index of the line which is important.

Then build style based on this list to make only those lines in the importantLines red, and everything else say Gray. Something like

lines = {x, 2*x, 3 + 4*x, 7*x, 2*x^2 + 5, 7 + x}
importantLines = {2, 5} (*second and fifth lines are important only*)
style = Table[If[MemberQ[importantLines, n], Red, Gray], {n, 1, Length@lines}]
Plot[lines, {x, -3, 3}, PlotStyle -> style]

If you want the others to be dashed, you do

lines = {x, 2*x, 3 + 4*x, 7*x, 2*x^2 + 5, 7 + x}
importantLines = {2, 5} (*second and fifth lines are important only*)
style = Table[If[MemberQ[importantLines, n], Red, {Gray, Dashed}], {n, 1, Length@lines}]
Plot[lines, {x, -3, 3}, PlotStyle -> style]

etc... You can customize the style as you want in the above. Make it thick or thin or any other allowed line style.

I am sure there are at least 9 other ways to do this.