## Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 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 3 of the License, 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, see
## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn  {Function File} {} line ()
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} line (@var{x}, @var{y})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} line (@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{z})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} line (@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{z}, @var{property}, @var{value}, @dots{})
## Create line object from @var{x} and @var{y} and insert in current
## axes object.  Return a handle (or vector of handles) to the line
## objects created.
##
## Multiple property-value pairs may be specified for the line, but they
## must appear in pairs.
## @end deftypefn

## Author: jwe

function h = line (varargin)

  ## make a default line object, and make it the current axes for
  ## the current figure.
  tmp = __line__ (gca (), varargin{:});

  if (nargout > 0)
    h = tmp;
  endif

endfunction