diff scripts/plot/plot.m @ 17122:eaab03308c0b

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.
author Rik <rik@octave.org>
date Wed, 31 Jul 2013 13:53:30 -0700
parents 08dd9458684a
children df4c4b7708a4
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--- a/scripts/plot/plot.m
+++ b/scripts/plot/plot.m
@@ -21,9 +21,9 @@
 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} plot (@var{x}, @var{y})
 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} plot (@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{property}, @var{value}, @dots{})
 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} plot (@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{fmt})
-## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} plot (@var{h}, @dots{})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} plot (@var{hax}, @dots{})
 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{h} =} plot (@dots{})
-## Produce two-dimensional plots.
+## Produce 2-D plots.
 ##
 ## Many different combinations of arguments are possible.  The simplest
 ## form is
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
 ## @end itemize
 ##
 ## Multiple property-value pairs may be specified, but they must appear
-## in pairs.  These arguments are applied to the lines drawn by
+## in pairs.  These arguments are applied to the line objects drawn by
 ## @code{plot}.
 ##
 ## If the @var{fmt} argument is supplied, it is interpreted as
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@
 ## @item ";title;"
 ## Here @code{"title"} is the label for the key.
 ##
-## @item +
+## @item  +
 ## @itemx *
 ## @itemx o
 ## @itemx x
@@ -170,13 +170,13 @@
 ## This will plot the cosine and sine functions and label them accordingly
 ## in the key.
 ##
-## If the first argument is an axis handle, then plot into these axes,
-## rather than the current axis handle returned by @code{gca}.
+## If the first argument @var{hax} is an axes handle, then plot into this axis,
+## rather than the current axes returned by @code{gca}.
 ##
-## The optional return value @var{h} is a graphics handle to the created plot.
+## The optional return value @var{h} is a vector of graphics handles to
+## the created line objects.
 ##
-## @seealso{semilogx, semilogy, loglog, polar, mesh, contour, bar,
-## stairs, errorbar, xlabel, ylabel, title, print}
+## @seealso{axis, box, grid, hold, legend, title, xlabel, ylabel, xlim, ylim, ezplot, errorbar, fplot, line, plot3, polar, loglog, semilogx, semilogy, subplot}
 ## @end deftypefn
 
 ## Author: jwe