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+## Copyright (C) 2007 John W. Eaton
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
+## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+## any later version.
+##
+## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+## General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the Free
+## Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
+## 02110-1301, USA.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{h} =} text (@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{label})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{h} =} text (@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{z}, @var{label})
+## Create a text object with text @var{label} at position @var{x},
+## @var{y}, @var{z} on the current axes.  The label may be followed by
+## property-value pairs.
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Author: jwe
+
+function h = text (varargin)
+
+  if (nargin > 2)
+    x = y = z = 0;
+    if (isnumeric (varargin{1}) && isnumeric (varargin{2}))
+      x = varargin{1};
+      y = varargin{2};
+    else
+      error ("text: expecting first two arguments to be numeric");
+    endif
+
+    if (nargin > 3 && isnumeric (varargin{3}))
+      z = varargin{3};
+      offset = 4;
+    else
+      z = zeros (size (x));
+      offset = 3;
+    endif
+
+    label = varargin{offset};
+    if (ischar (label) || iscellstr (label))
+      varargin(1:offset) = [];
+      if (ischar (label))
+	label = cellstr (label);
+      endif
+      n = numel (label);
+      nx = numel (x);
+      ny = numel (y);
+      nz = numel (z);
+      if (nx == ny && nx == nz)
+	pos = [x(:), y(:), z(:)];
+	ca = gca ();
+	tmp = zeros (n, 1);
+	if (n == 1)
+	  label = label{1};
+	  for i = 1:nx
+	    tmp(i) = __uiobject_text_ctor__ (ca, "string", label,
+					     "position", pos(i,:),
+					     varargin{:});
+	  endfor
+	elseif (n == nx)
+	  for i = 1:nx
+	    tmp(i) = __uiobject_text_ctor__ (ca, "string", label{i},
+					     "position", pos(i,:),
+					     varargin{:});
+	  endfor
+	else
+	  error ("text: dimension mismatch for coordinates and label");
+	endif
+      else
+	error ("text: dimension mismatch for coordinates");
+      endif
+    else
+      error ("text: expecting label to be a character string or cell array of character strings");
+    endif
+
+    for i = 1:numel (tmp)
+      __uiobject_adopt__ (ca, tmp(i));
+    endfor
+
+    if (nargout > 0)
+      h = tmp;
+    endif
+
+  else
+    print_usage ();
+  endif
+
+endfunction