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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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16 ## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see
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17 ## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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19 ## -*- texinfo -*-
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20 ## @deftypefn {Function File} {} axes ()
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21 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} axes (@var{property}, @var{value}, @dots{})
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22 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} axes (@var{hax})
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23 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{h} =} axes (@dots{})
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24 ## Create an axes object and return a handle to it, or set the current
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25 ## axes to @var{hax}.
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26 ##
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27 ## Called without any arguments, or with @var{property}/@var{value} pairs,
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28 ## construct a new axes. For accepted properties and corresponding
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29 ## values, @pxref{XREFset,,set}.
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30 ##
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31 ## Called with a single axes handle argument @var{hax}, the function makes
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32 ## @var{hax} the current axis. It also restacks the axes in the
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33 ## corresponding figure so that @var{hax} is the first entry in the list
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34 ## of children. This causes @var{hax} to be displayed on top of any other
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35 ## axes objects (Z-order stacking).
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36 ##
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37 ## @seealso {gca, set, get}
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38 ## @end deftypefn
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40 ## Author: jwe
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42 function h = axes (varargin)
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44 if (nargin == 0 || nargin > 1)
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45 ## Create an axes object.
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46 idx = find (strcmpi (varargin(1:2:end), "parent"), 1, "first");
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47 if (! isempty (idx) && length (varargin) >= 2*idx)
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48 cf = varargin{2*idx};
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49 varargin([2*idx-1, 2*idx]) = [];
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50 else
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51 cf = gcf ();
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52 endif
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53 htmp = __go_axes__ (cf, varargin{:});
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54 if (__is_handle_visible__ (htmp))
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55 set (ancestor (cf, "figure"), "currentaxes", htmp);
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56 endif
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57 else
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58 ## ARG is axes handle.
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59 htmp = varargin{1};
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60 if (isscalar (htmp) && ishandle (htmp)
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61 && strcmp (get (htmp, "type"), "axes"))
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62 if (__is_handle_visible__ (htmp))
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63 parent = ancestor (htmp, "figure");
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64 set (0, "currentfigure", parent);
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65 set (parent, "currentaxes", htmp);
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67 ## restack
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68 ch = get (parent, "children")(:);
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69 idx = (ch == htmp);
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70 ch = [ch(idx); ch(!idx)];
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71 set (parent, "children", ch);
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72 endif
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73 else
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74 error ("axes: H must be a scalar axes handle");
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75 endif
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76 endif
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78 if (nargout > 0)
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79 h = htmp;
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80 endif
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82 endfunction