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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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19 ## -*- texinfo -*-
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20 ## @deftypefn {Function File} {} ezmesh (@var{f})
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21 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} ezmesh (@var{fx}, @var{fy}, @var{fz})
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22 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} ezmesh (@dots{}, @var{dom})
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23 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} ezmesh (@dots{}, @var{n})
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24 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} ezmesh (@dots{}, "circ")
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25 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} ezmesh (@var{hax}, @dots{})
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26 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{h} =} ezmesh (@dots{})
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27 ##
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28 ## Plot the mesh defined by a function.
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29 ##
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30 ## @var{f} is a string, inline function, or function handle with two arguments
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31 ## defining the function. By default the plot is over the meshed domain
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32 ## @code{-2*pi <= @var{x} | @var{y} <= 2*pi} with 60 points in each dimension.
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33 ##
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34 ## If three functions are passed, then plot the parametrically defined
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35 ## function @code{[@var{fx} (@var{s}, @var{t}), @var{fy} (@var{s}, @var{t}),
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36 ## @var{fz} (@var{s}, @var{t})]}.
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37 ##
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38 ## If @var{dom} is a two element vector, it represents the minimum and maximum
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39 ## values of both @var{x} and @var{y}. If @var{dom} is a four element vector,
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40 ## then the minimum and maximum values are @code{[xmin xmax ymin ymax]}.
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41 ##
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42 ## @var{n} is a scalar defining the number of points to use in each dimension.
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44 ## If the argument "circ" is given, then the function is plotted over a disk
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45 ## centered on the middle of the domain @var{dom}.
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46 ##
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47 ## If the first argument @var{hax} is an axes handle, then plot into this axis,
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48 ## rather than the current axes returned by @code{gca}.
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49 ##
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50 ## The optional return value @var{h} is a graphics handle to the created
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51 ## surface object.
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53 ## Example 1: 2-argument function
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54 ##
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55 ## @example
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57 ## f = @@(x,y) sqrt (abs (x .* y)) ./ (1 + x.^2 + y.^2);
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58 ## ezmesh (f, [-3, 3]);
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59 ## @end group
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60 ## @end example
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62 ## Example 2: parametrically defined function
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64 ## @example
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65 ## @group
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66 ## fx = @@(s,t) cos (s) .* cos (t);
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67 ## fy = @@(s,t) sin (s) .* cos (t);
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68 ## fz = @@(s,t) sin (t);
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70 ## @end group
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71 ## @end example
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73 ## @seealso{mesh, ezmeshc, ezplot, ezsurf, ezsurfc, hidden}
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76 function h = ezmesh (varargin)
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78 [htmp, needusage] = __ezplot__ ("mesh", varargin{:});
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80 if (needusage)
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81 print_usage ();
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