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doc: Rewrite docstrings for most plot functions. Emphasize clarity, use common "voice", and increase density of seealso links. * doc/interpreter/plot.txi: Add @findex entries that were in xlim.m * scripts/miscellaneous/getappdata.m scripts/miscellaneous/setappdata.m, scripts/plot/allchild.m, scripts/plot/ancestor.m, scripts/plot/area.m, scripts/plot/axes.m, scripts/plot/axis.m, scripts/plot/bar.m, scripts/plot/barh.m, scripts/plot/box.m, scripts/plot/caxis.m, scripts/plot/cla.m, scripts/plot/clabel.m, scripts/plot/clf.m, scripts/plot/close.m, scripts/plot/closereq.m, scripts/plot/colorbar.m, scripts/plot/comet.m, scripts/plot/comet3.m, scripts/plot/compass.m, scripts/plot/contour.m, scripts/plot/contour3.m, scripts/plot/contourc.m, scripts/plot/contourf.m, scripts/plot/copyobj.m, scripts/plot/cylinder.m, scripts/plot/daspect.m, scripts/plot/diffuse.m, scripts/plot/ellipsoid.m, scripts/plot/errorbar.m, scripts/plot/ezcontour.m, scripts/plot/ezcontourf.m, scripts/plot/ezmesh.m, scripts/plot/ezmeshc.m, scripts/plot/ezplot.m, scripts/plot/ezplot3.m, scripts/plot/ezpolar.m, scripts/plot/ezsurf.m, scripts/plot/ezsurfc.m, scripts/plot/feather.m, scripts/plot/figure.m, scripts/plot/fill.m, scripts/plot/findall.m, scripts/plot/findobj.m, scripts/plot/fplot.m, scripts/plot/gca.m, scripts/plot/gcbf.m, scripts/plot/gcbo.m, scripts/plot/gcf.m, scripts/plot/gco.m, scripts/plot/ginput.m, scripts/plot/graphics_toolkit.m, scripts/plot/grid.m, scripts/plot/gtext.m, scripts/plot/guidata.m, scripts/plot/guihandles.m, scripts/plot/hdl2struct.m, scripts/plot/hggroup.m, scripts/plot/hidden.m, scripts/plot/hist.m, scripts/plot/hold.m, scripts/plot/ishghandle.m, scripts/plot/ishold.m, scripts/plot/isocolors.m, scripts/plot/isprop.m, scripts/plot/legend.m, scripts/plot/line.m, scripts/plot/linkprop.m, scripts/plot/loglog.m, scripts/plot/loglogerr.m, scripts/plot/mesh.m, scripts/plot/meshc.m, scripts/plot/meshgrid.m, scripts/plot/meshz.m, scripts/plot/newplot.m, scripts/plot/orient.m, scripts/plot/pareto.m, scripts/plot/patch.m, scripts/plot/pcolor.m, scripts/plot/peaks.m, scripts/plot/pie.m, scripts/plot/pie3.m, scripts/plot/plot.m, scripts/plot/plot3.m, scripts/plot/plotmatrix.m, scripts/plot/plotyy.m, scripts/plot/polar.m, scripts/plot/print.m, scripts/plot/quiver.m, scripts/plot/quiver3.m, scripts/plot/rectangle.m, scripts/plot/refresh.m, scripts/plot/refreshdata.m, scripts/plot/ribbon.m, scripts/plot/rose.m, scripts/plot/saveas.m, scripts/plot/scatter.m, scripts/plot/scatter3.m, scripts/plot/semilogx.m, scripts/plot/semilogxerr.m, scripts/plot/semilogy.m, scripts/plot/semilogyerr.m, scripts/plot/shading.m, scripts/plot/shg.m, scripts/plot/shrinkfaces.m, scripts/plot/slice.m, scripts/plot/specular.m, scripts/plot/sphere.m, scripts/plot/stairs.m, scripts/plot/stem.m, scripts/plot/stem3.m, scripts/plot/struct2hdl.m, scripts/plot/subplot.m, scripts/plot/surf.m, scripts/plot/surface.m, scripts/plot/surfc.m, scripts/plot/surfl.m, scripts/plot/tetramesh.m, scripts/plot/text.m, scripts/plot/title.m, scripts/plot/trimesh.m, scripts/plot/triplot.m, scripts/plot/trisurf.m, scripts/plot/view.m, scripts/plot/waitbar.m, scripts/plot/waitforbuttonpress.m, scripts/plot/waterfall.m, scripts/plot/whitebg.m, scripts/plot/xlabel.m, scripts/plot/xlim.m, scripts/plot/ylabel.m, scripts/plot/ylim.m, scripts/plot/zlabel.m, scripts/plot/zlim.m: Rewrite docstrings for most plot functions. Emphasize clarity, use common "voice", and increase density of seealso links.
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19 ## -*- texinfo -*-
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20 ## @deftypefn {Function File} {} title (@var{string})
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21 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} title (@var{string}, @var{prop}, @var{val}, @dots{})
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22 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} title (@var{hax}, @dots{})
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23 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{h} =} title (@dots{})
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24 ## Specify the string used as a title for the current axis.
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25 ##
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26 ## An optional list of @var{property}/@var{value} pairs can be used to change
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27 ## the appearance of the created title text object.
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28 ##
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29 ## If the first argument @var{hax} is an axes handle, then plot into this axis,
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30 ## rather than the current axes returned by @code{gca}.
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32 ## The optional return value @var{h} is a graphics handle to the created text
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33 ## object.
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34 ## @seealso{xlabel, ylabel, zlabel, text}
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35 ## @end deftypefn
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39 function h = title (varargin)
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41 [hax, varargin, nargin] = __plt_get_axis_arg__ ("title", varargin{:});
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43 if (isempty (hax))
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44 hax = gca ();
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45 endif
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51 htmp = __axis_label__ (hax, "title", varargin{:});
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53 if (nargout > 0)
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54 h = htmp;
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60 %!demo
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62 %! ax = axes ();
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63 %! h = get (ax, 'title');
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64 %! title ('Testing title');
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65 %! assert (get (h, 'string'), 'Testing title');
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67 %!demo
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68 %! clf;
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69 %! plot3 ([0,1], [0,1], [0,1]);
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71 %! title ('Testing title', 'fontsize', 16);
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75 %!test
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76 %! hf = figure ("visible", "off");
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77 %! unwind_protect
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78 %! ax = axes ();
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83 %! close (hf);
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88 %! unwind_protect
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89 %! plot3 ([0,1], [0,1], [0,1]);
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94 %! close (hf);
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95 %! end_unwind_protect
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