# Copyright (C) 1996 John W. Eaton
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function mplot (...)

# usage: mplot (x, y)
#        mplot (x1, y1, x2, y2, ...)
#        mplot (x, y, fmt)
#
# This is a modified version of plot() command to work with
# multiplot version of gnuplot to plot multiple plots per page.
# This plot version automatically updates the plot position to
# next plot position after making the plot in the given subplot
# position.
#
# See command plot() for the various options to this command
# as this is just mulitplot version of the same command.


# Written by Vinayak Dutt, Dutt.Vinayak@mayo.EDU

# global variables to keep track of multiplot options

  global multiplot_mode
  global multiplot_xsize multiplot_ysize
  global multiplot_xn multiplot_yn
  global multiplot_xi multiplot_yi

# This is a real kludge.  We gnuplot should be made so that replot can
# be executed while doing multiple plots...

  global multiplot_save_auto_replot = automatic_replot

  if ((isstr (automatic_replot) && strcmp (automatic_replot,"true"))
       || automatic_replot)
    warning ("turning off automatic replot for multiplot mode");
    multiplot_save_auto_replot = automatic_replot;
    automatic_replot = 0;
  endif

  set nologscale;
  set nopolar;

  plot_int ("plot", all_va_args);

# update the plot position

  if (multiplot_mode)

    if (multiplot_xi < multiplot_xn)
      multiplot_xi++;
    else
      multiplot_xi = 1;
      if (multiplot_yi < multiplot_xn)
	multiplot_yi++;
      else
	multiplot_yi = 1;
      endif
    endif

    xo = (multiplot_xi - 1.0)*multiplot_xsize;
    yo = (multiplot_yn - multiplot_yi)*multiplot_ysize;

    eval (sprintf ("set origin %g, %g", xo,yo));

  endif

endfunction