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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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1 ## Copyright (C) 2010-2012 Kai Habel
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2 ##
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3 ## This file is part of Octave.
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4 ##
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5 ## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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6 ## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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7 ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
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8 ## your option) any later version.
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9 ##
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10 ## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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11 ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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12 ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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13 ## General Public License for more details.
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14 ##
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15 ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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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} {} saveas (@var{h}, @var{filename})
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21 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} saveas (@var{h}, @var{filename}, @var{fmt})
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22 ## Save graphic object @var{h} to the file @var{filename} in graphic
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23 ## format @var{fmt}.
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24 ##
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25 ## @var{fmt} should be one of the following formats:
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26 ##
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27 ## @table @code
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28 ## @item ps
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29 ## PostScript
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30 ##
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31 ## @item eps
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32 ## Encapsulated PostScript
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33 ##
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34 ## @item jpg
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35 ## JPEG Image
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36 ##
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37 ## @item png
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38 ## PNG Image
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39 ##
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40 ## @item emf
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41 ## Enhanced Meta File
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42 ##
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43 ## @item pdf
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44 ## Portable Document Format
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45 ## @end table
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46 ##
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47 ## All device formats specified in @code{print} may also be used. If
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48 ## @var{fmt} is omitted it is extracted from the extension of @var{filename}.
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49 ## The default format is "pdf".
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50 ##
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51 ## @example
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52 ## @group
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53 ## clf ();
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54 ## surf (peaks);
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55 ## saveas (1, "figure1.png");
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56 ## @end group
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57 ## @end example
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58 ##
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59 ## @seealso{print, orient}
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60 ## @end deftypefn
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62 ## Author: Kai Habel
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63
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64 function saveas (h, filename, fmt = "pdf")
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66 if ((nargin != 2) && (nargin != 3))
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67 print_usage ();
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68 endif
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70 if (ishandle (h))
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71 if (isfigure (h))
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72 fig = h;
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73 else
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74 fig = ancestor (h, "figure");
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75 endif
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76 else
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77 error ("saveas: first argument H must be a graphics handle");
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78 endif
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80 if (!ischar (filename))
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81 error ("saveas: FILENAME must be a string");
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82 endif
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84 if (nargin == 2)
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85 [~, ~, ext] = fileparts (filename);
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87 fmt = ext(2:end);
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88 endif
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89 endif
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92 if (!ischar (filename))
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93 error ("saveas: EXT must be a string");
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94 endif
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99 filename = strcat (filename, ".", fmt);
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100 endif
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101 endif
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103 prt_opt = strcat ("-d", tolower (fmt));
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105 print (fig, filename, prt_opt);
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107 endfunction