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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} semilogy (@var{args})
## Make a two-dimensional plot using a log scale for the @var{y} axis.  See
## the description of @code{plot} for a description of the arguments
## that @code{semilogy} will accept.
## @seealso{plot, semilogx, loglog, polar, mesh, contour, bar, stairs,
## replot, xlabel, ylabel, title}
## @end deftypefn

## Author: jwe

function semilogy (varargin)

  ## FIXME -- these plot states should really just be set
  ## temporarily, probably inside an unwind_protect block, but there is
  ## no way to determine their current values.

  __gnuplot_raw__ ("set nologscale x;\n");
  __gnuplot_raw__ ("set logscale y;\n");
  __gnuplot_raw__ ("set nopolar;\n");

  __plt__ ("semilogy", varargin{:});

endfunction