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 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 3.0:
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+ ** Compatibility with Matlab graphics is much better now.  We now
+    have some graphics features that work like Matlab's Handle
+    Graphics (tm):
+
+    + You can make a subplot and then use the print function to
+      generate file with the plot.
+
+    + RGB line colors are supported if you use gnuplot 4.2.  Octave
+      can still use gnuplot 4.0, but there is no longer any way to set
+      line colors with it when using the Matlab-style plot functions.
+      Actually, there never was any way to do this reliably with older
+      versions of gnuplot (whether run from Octave or not) since it
+      only provided a limited set to choose from, and they were
+      terminal dependent, so choosing color 1 with the X11 terminal
+      would be different from color 1 with the PostScript terminal.
+
+    + You can control the width of lines using (for example):
+
+	line (x, y, "linewidth", 4, "color", [1, 0, 0.5]);
+
+      (this also shows the color feature).
+
+    + With gnuplot 4.2, image data is plotted with gnuplot and may be
+      combined with other 2-d plot data.
+
+    + Lines for contour plots are generated with an Octave function, so
+      contour plots are now 2-d plots instead of special 3-d plots, and
+      this allows you to plot additional 2-d data on top of a contour
+      plot.
+
+    + It is no longer possible to mix Matlab-style plot commands with
+      the old (and now considered obsolete) style of plot commands
+      (__gnuplot_set__, etc.).  You can do one or the other, but not
+      both for the same plot.
+
+    + Plot property values are not extensively checked.  Specifying
+      invalid property values may produce unpredictible results.
+
+
  ** The way Octave handles search paths has changed.  Instead of
     setting the built-in variable LOADPATH, you must use addpath,
     rmpath, or path to manipulate the function search path.  These