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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn  {Function File} {} semilogy (@var{y})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} semilogy (@var{x}, @var{y})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} semilogy (@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{property}, @var{value}, @dots{})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} semilogy (@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{fmt})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} semilogy (@var{h}, @dots{})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{h} =} semilogy (@dots{})
## Produce a 2-D plot using a logarithmic scale for the y-axis.
##
## See the documentation of @code{plot} for a description of the
## arguments that @code{semilogy} will accept.
##
## If the first argument @var{hax} is an axes handle, then plot into this axis,
## rather than the current axes returned by @code{gca}.
##
## The optional return value @var{h} is a graphics handle to the created plot.
## @seealso{plot, semilogx, loglog}
## @end deftypefn

## Author: jwe

function h = semilogy (varargin)

  [hax, varargin, nargs] = __plt_get_axis_arg__ ("semilogy", varargin{:});

  if (nargs < 1)
    print_usage ();
  endif

  oldfig = ifelse (isempty (hax), [], get (0, "currentfigure"));
  unwind_protect
    hax = newplot (hax);

    set (hax, "yscale", "log");
    if (! ishold (hax))
      set (hax, "yminortick", "on");
    endif

    htmp = __plt__ ("semilogy", hax, varargin{:});

  unwind_protect_cleanup
    if (! isempty (oldfig))
      set (0, "currentfigure", oldfig);
    endif
  end_unwind_protect

  if (nargout > 0)
    h = htmp;
  endif

endfunction


%!demo
%! clf;
%! x = 1:0.01:10;
%! y = (x .* (1 + rand (size (x)))) .^ 2;
%! semilogy (x, y);

%!demo
%! clf;
%! x = logspace (-5, 1, 10);
%! y = logspace (-5, 1, 10);
%!
%! subplot (2,1,1);
%!  semilogy (x, y);
%!  ylabel ('semilogy (x, y)');
%!
%! subplot (2,1,2);
%!  semilogy (x, -y);
%!  ylabel ('semilogy (x, -y)');

%!demo
%! clf;
%! x = logspace (-5, 1, 10);
%! y = logspace (-5, 1, 10);
%!
%! subplot (2,1,1);
%!  semilogy (x, y);
%!  set (gca, 'ydir', 'reverse', 'activepositionproperty', 'outerposition');
%!  ylabel ({'semilogy (x, y)', 'ydir = reversed'});
%!
%! subplot (2,1,2);
%!  semilogy (x, -y);
%!  set (gca, 'ydir', 'reverse', 'activepositionproperty', 'outerposition');
%!  ylabel ({'semilogy (x, -y)', 'ydir = reversed'});

%!test
%! hf = figure ("visible", "off");
%! unwind_protect
%!   a = logspace (-5, 1, 10);
%!   b = logspace (-5, 1, 10);
%!   semilogy (a, b);
%!   assert (get (gca, "yscale"), "log");
%!   assert (get (gca, "xscale"), "linear");
%! unwind_protect_cleanup
%!   close (hf);
%! end_unwind_protect

%!test
%! hf = figure ("visible", "off");
%! unwind_protect
%!   a = logspace (-5, 1, 10);
%!   b =-logspace (-5, 1, 10);
%!   semilogy (a, b);
%!   axis tight;
%!   assert (all (get (gca, "ytick") < 0));
%! unwind_protect_cleanup
%!   close (hf);
%! end_unwind_protect