# HG changeset patch
# User John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
# Date 1233762983 18000
# Node ID e07e93c040809ee87ec3d8d7d80e8b885200294e
# Parent  4238f2600a17f51134754f554c0f71c35698c833
style fixes

diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 examples/@polynomial/polynomial.m
--- a/examples/@polynomial/polynomial.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/examples/@polynomial/polynomial.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
       p.poly = a(:)';
       p = class (p, "polynomial");
     else
-      error ("polynomial: expecting real or complex vector")
+      error ("polynomial: expecting real or complex vector");
     endif
   else
     print_usage ();
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 examples/@polynomial/polynomial_superiorto.m
--- a/examples/@polynomial/polynomial_superiorto.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/examples/@polynomial/polynomial_superiorto.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
       p.poly = a(:)';
       p = class (p, "polynomial");
     else
-      error ("polynomial: expecting real or complex vector")
+      error ("polynomial: expecting real or complex vector");
     endif
   else
     print_usage ();
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/ChangeLog
--- a/scripts/ChangeLog	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/ChangeLog	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -1,3 +1,26 @@
+2009-02-04  John W. Eaton  <jwe@octave.org>
+
+	* audio/wavwrite.m, deprecated/splu.m, general/bitcmp.m,
+	general/fliplr.m, general/flipud.m, general/genvarname.m,
+	general/nargchk.m, general/nargoutchk.m, general/quadgk.m,
+	general/rot90.m, geometry/griddata.m, geometry/rectint.m,
+	geometry/voronoi.m, geometry/voronoin.m,
+	help/__strip_html_tags__.m, image/brighten.m, image/imfinfo.m,
+	image/imread.m, linear-algebra/cond.m, linear-algebra/condest.m,
+	linear-algebra/dmult.m, linear-algebra/dot.m,
+	linear-algebra/expm.m, linear-algebra/housh.m,
+	linear-algebra/onenormest.m, linear-algebra/subspace.m,
+	miscellaneous/compare_versions.m, optimization/__all_opts__.m,
+	optimization/optimget.m, pkg/pkg.m, plot/__bar__.m,
+	plot/__plr2__.m, plot/ribbon.m, plot/slice.m, polynomial/pchip.m,
+	polynomial/roots.m, set/unique.m, signal/fractdiff.m,
+	signal/hurst.m, specfun/beta.m, specfun/legendre.m,
+	statistics/base/__quantile__.m, statistics/base/quantile.m,
+	statistics/tests/cor_test.m,
+	statistics/tests/kolmogorov_smirnov_test_2.m, strings/base2dec.m,
+	strings/dec2base.m, strings/strcat.m, strings/validatestring.m,
+	time/addtodate.m: Style fixes.
+
 2009-02-04  Jaroslav Hajek  <highegg@gmail.com>
 
 	* optimization/fsolve.m: remove redundant line.
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/audio/wavwrite.m
--- a/scripts/audio/wavwrite.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/audio/wavwrite.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@
     
   [fid, msg] = fopen (filename, "wb");
   if (fid < 0)
-    error ("wavwrite: %s", msg)
+    error ("wavwrite: %s", msg);
   endif
   
   ## write RIFF/WAVE header
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/deprecated/splu.m
--- a/scripts/deprecated/splu.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/deprecated/splu.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
   for i = 2 : nargin
     arg = varargin {i};
     if (! isscalar (arg))
-      error ("splu: Can no longer treat input column permutations.");
+      error ("splu: Can no longer treat input column permutations");
     endif
   endfor
 
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/general/bitcmp.m
--- a/scripts/general/bitcmp.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/general/bitcmp.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
   endif
 
   if (nargin == 2 && (! isscalar (n) || (floor (n) != n)))
-    error("k must be a scalar integer")
+    error ("k must be a scalar integer");
   endif
 
   if (isa (a, "double"))
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/general/fliplr.m
--- a/scripts/general/fliplr.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/general/fliplr.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
   endif
 
   if (ndims (x) > 2)
-    error ("fliplr: Only works with 2-D arrays")
+    error ("fliplr: Only works with 2-D arrays");
   endif
 
   nc = columns (x);
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/general/flipud.m
--- a/scripts/general/flipud.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/general/flipud.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
   endif
 
   if (ndims (x) > 2)
-    error ("flipud: Only works with 2-d arrays")
+    error ("flipud: Only works with 2-d arrays");
   endif
 
   nr = rows (x);
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/general/genvarname.m
--- a/scripts/general/genvarname.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/general/genvarname.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -105,19 +105,19 @@
     exclusions = {};
   elseif (ischar (exclusions))
     if (rows (exclusions) != 1)
-      error ("genvarname: if more than one exclusion is given, it must be a cellstr")
+      error ("genvarname: if more than one exclusion is given, it must be a cellstr");
     endif
     exclusions = {exclusions};
   elseif (! iscellstr (exclusions))
-    error ("genvarname: exclusions must be a string or a cellstr")
+    error ("genvarname: exclusions must be a string or a cellstr");
   endif
   if (ischar (str))
     if (rows (str) != 1)
-      error ("genvarname: if more than one str is given, it must be a cellstr")
+      error ("genvarname: if more than one str is given, it must be a cellstr");
     endif
     str = {str};
   elseif (! iscellstr (str))
-    error ("genvarname: str must be a string or a cellstr")
+    error ("genvarname: str must be a string or a cellstr");
   endif
 
   validchars = cstrcat ("A":"Z", "a":"z", "0":"9", "_");
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/general/nargchk.m
--- a/scripts/general/nargchk.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/general/nargchk.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
     endif
     ## FIXME: remove the error below if error is modified to accept
     ## struct inputs
-    error ("nargchk: error does not yet support struct inputs")
+    error ("nargchk: error does not yet support struct inputs");
   endif
 
 endfunction
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/general/nargoutchk.m
--- a/scripts/general/nargoutchk.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/general/nargoutchk.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
     endif
     ## FIXME: remove the error below if error is modified to accept
     ## struct inputs
-    error ("nargoutchk: error does not yet support struct inputs")
+    error ("nargoutchk: error does not yet support struct inputs");
   endif
 
 endfunction
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/general/quadgk.m
--- a/scripts/general/quadgk.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/general/quadgk.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@
 	  endif
 	endwhile
 	if (idx != nargin - 2)
-	  error ("quadgk: expecting properties in pairs")
+	  error ("quadgk: expecting properties in pairs");
 	endif
       endif
     endif
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@
 
     unwind_protect
       ## Singularity will cause divide by zero warnings
-      warning ("off", "Octave:divide-by-zero")
+      warning ("off", "Octave:divide-by-zero");
 
       ## Initial evaluation of the integrand on the sub-intervals
       [q_subs, q_errs] = __quadgk_eval__ (f, subs);
@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@
       endif
     unwind_protect_cleanup
       if (strcmp (warn_state.state, "on")) 
-	warning ("on", "Octave:divide-by-zero")
+	warning ("on", "Octave:divide-by-zero");
       endif
     end_unwind_protect
   endif
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/general/rot90.m
--- a/scripts/general/rot90.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/general/rot90.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
     endif
 
     if (ndims (x) > 2)
-      error ("rot90: Only works with 2-D arrays")
+      error ("rot90: Only works with 2-D arrays");
     endif
 
     if (imag (k) != 0 || fix (k) != k)
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/geometry/griddata.m
--- a/scripts/geometry/griddata.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/geometry/griddata.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
   zi = nan (size (xi));
   
   if (strcmp (method, "cubic"))
-    error ("griddata: cubic interpolation not yet implemented")
+    error ("griddata: cubic interpolation not yet implemented");
 
   elseif (strcmp (method, "nearest"))
     ## Search index of nearest point.
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/geometry/rectint.m
--- a/scripts/geometry/rectint.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/geometry/rectint.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
   elseif (columns (b) != 4)
     error ("rectint: b must have 4 columns");
   elseif any ([a(:,3:4);b(:,3:4)](:) < 0)
-    error ("rectint: all widths and heights must be > 0")
+    error ("rectint: all widths and heights must be > 0");
   endif
 
   ## This runs faster if the number of rows of a is greater than the
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/geometry/voronoi.m
--- a/scripts/geometry/voronoi.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/geometry/voronoi.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@
     vvx = vx;
     vvy = vy;
   else
-    error ("voronoi: only two or zero output arguments supported")
+    error ("voronoi: only two or zero output arguments supported");
   endif
 
 endfunction
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/geometry/voronoin.m
--- a/scripts/geometry/voronoin.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/geometry/voronoin.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -54,6 +54,6 @@
     endif
 
   else
-    error ("voronoin: number of points must be greater than their dimension")
+    error ("voronoin: number of points must be greater than their dimension");
   endif
 endfunction
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/help/__strip_html_tags__.m
--- a/scripts/help/__strip_html_tags__.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/help/__strip_html_tags__.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -33,8 +33,7 @@
     text = strip_superfluous_endlines (text);
     status = 0;
   else
-    warning ("help: invalid HTML data");
-    warning ("Raw HTML source follows...");
+    warning ("help: invalid HTML data -- raw HTML source follows...");
     disp (html_text);
     text = "";
     status = 1;
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/image/brighten.m
--- a/scripts/image/brighten.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/image/brighten.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -45,14 +45,14 @@
       h = m;
       m = get (h, "colormap");
     elseif (! is_matrix (m) || size (m, 2) != 3)
-      error ("First argument must be a matrix of size nx3 or a handle.");
+      error ("brighten: first argument must be an Nx3 matrix or a handle");
     endif
   else
     print_usage ();
   endif
 
   if (! isscalar (beta) || beta <= -1 || beta >= 1)
-    error ("brighten(...,beta) beta must be a scalar in the range (-1,1).");
+    error ("brighten: beta must be a scalar in the range (-1,1)");
   endif
 
   if (beta > 0)
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/image/imfinfo.m
--- a/scripts/image/imfinfo.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/image/imfinfo.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@
   endif
 
   if (!ischar (filename))
-    error ("imfinfo: filename must be a string")
+    error ("imfinfo: filename must be a string");
   endif
 
   filename = tilde_expand (filename);
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/image/imread.m
--- a/scripts/image/imread.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/image/imread.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
   endif
 
   if (! ischar (filename))
-    error ("imread: filename must be a string")
+    error ("imread: filename must be a string");
   endif
 
   filename = tilde_expand (filename);
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
 	map_field = isfield (vars, "map");
       endif
     catch
-      error ("imread: invalid image file: %s", magick_error)
+      error ("imread: invalid image file: %s", magick_error);
     end_try_catch
 
     if (map_field && (img_field || x_field))
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/linear-algebra/cond.m
--- a/scripts/linear-algebra/cond.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/linear-algebra/cond.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 
   if (nargin && nargin < 3)
     if (ndims (a) > 2)
-      error ("cond: only valid on 2-D objects")
+      error ("cond: only valid on 2-D objects");
     endif
 
     if (nargin <2)
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/linear-algebra/condest.m
--- a/scripts/linear-algebra/condest.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/linear-algebra/condest.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@
     A = varargin{1};
     n = issquare (A);
     if (! n)
-      error ("condest: matrix must be square.");
+      error ("condest: matrix must be square");
     endif
     have_A = true;
 
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@
 	  have_t = true;
 	endif
       else
-	error ("condest: must supply both solve and solve_t.");
+	error ("condest: must supply both solve and solve_t");
       endif
     endif
   elseif (nargin > 4)
@@ -147,14 +147,14 @@
     have_solve = true;
     n = varargin{5};
     if (! isscalar (n))
-      error ("condest: dimension argument of implicit form must be scalar.");
+      error ("condest: dimension argument of implicit form must be scalar");
     endif
     if (nargin > 5)
       t = varargin{6};
       have_t = true;
     endif
   else
-    error ("condest: implicit form of condest requires at least 5 arguments.");
+    error ("condest: implicit form of condest requires at least 5 arguments");
   endif
 
   if (! have_t)
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/linear-algebra/dmult.m
--- a/scripts/linear-algebra/dmult.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/linear-algebra/dmult.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
       s = kron (ones (sat, 1), kron (b, ones (sal, 1)));
       m = reshape (s, sa) .* a;
     else
-      error ("dmult: dimensions mismatch or index out of range")
+      error ("dmult: dimensions mismatch or index out of range");
     endif
   else
     print_usage ();
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/linear-algebra/dot.m
--- a/scripts/linear-algebra/dot.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/linear-algebra/dot.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -41,12 +41,12 @@
       y = y(:);
     endif
     if (! size_equal (x, y))
-      error ("dot: sizes of arguments must match")
+      error ("dot: sizes of arguments must match");
     endif
     z = sum(x .* y);
   else
     if (! size_equal (x, y))
-      error ("dot: sizes of arguments must match")
+      error ("dot: sizes of arguments must match");
     endif
     z = sum(x .* y, dim);
   endif
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/linear-algebra/expm.m
--- a/scripts/linear-algebra/expm.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/linear-algebra/expm.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@
 function r = expm (a)
 
   if (! ismatrix (a) || ! issquare (a))
-    error ("expm requires a square matrix")
+    error ("expm requires a square matrix");
   endif
 
   n = rows (a);
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/linear-algebra/housh.m
--- a/scripts/linear-algebra/housh.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/linear-algebra/housh.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -63,9 +63,9 @@
 
   ## Check for valid inputs.
   if (! isvector (x) && ! isscalar (x))
-    error ("housh: first input must be a vector")
+    error ("housh: first input must be a vector");
   elseif (! isscalar(j))
-    error ("housh: second argment must be an integer scalar")
+    error ("housh: second argment must be an integer scalar");
   else
     housv = x;
     m = max (abs (housv));
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/linear-algebra/onenormest.m
--- a/scripts/linear-algebra/onenormest.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/linear-algebra/onenormest.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@
   if (ismatrix (varargin{1}))
     n = size (varargin{1}, 1);
     if n != size (varargin{1}, 2),
-      error ("onenormest: matrix must be square.");
+      error ("onenormest: matrix must be square");
     endif
     apply = @(x) varargin{1} * x;
     apply_t = @(x) varargin{1}' * x;
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/linear-algebra/subspace.m
--- a/scripts/linear-algebra/subspace.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/linear-algebra/subspace.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
   elseif (ndims (a) != 2 || ndims (b) != 2)
     error ("subspace: expecting A and B to be 2-dimensional arrays");
   elseif (rows (a) != rows (b))
-    error ("subspace: column dimensions of a and b must match")
+    error ("subspace: column dimensions of a and b must match");
   endif
 
   a = orth (a);
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/miscellaneous/compare_versions.m
--- a/scripts/miscellaneous/compare_versions.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/miscellaneous/compare_versions.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
   if (! (ischar (v1) && ischar (v2)))
     error ("compare_versions: both version numbers must be strings");
   elseif (size (v1, 1) != 1 || size (v2, 1) != 1)
-    error ("compare_versions: version numbers must be a single row")
+    error ("compare_versions: version numbers must be a single row");
   endif
 
   ## check and make sure that the operator is valid
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/optimization/__all_opts__.m
--- a/scripts/optimization/__all_opts__.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/optimization/__all_opts__.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
     lnames = unique (tolower (names));
     if (length (lnames) < length (names))
       ## This is bad.
-      error ("__all_opts__: duplicate options with inconsistent case.");
+      error ("__all_opts__: duplicate options with inconsistent case");
     endif
     saved_names = names;
     recursive = false;
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/optimization/optimget.m
--- a/scripts/optimization/optimget.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/optimization/optimget.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
   if (idx > 0 && strcmpi (parname, opts{idx}))
     parname = opts{idx};
   else
-    warning ("unrecognized option: %s", parname)
+    warning ("unrecognized option: %s", parname);
   endif
   if (isfield (options, parname))
     retval = options.(parname);
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/pkg/pkg.m
--- a/scripts/pkg/pkg.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/pkg/pkg.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -877,7 +877,7 @@
       endif
     else
       ## FIXME: We should have a better error message.
-      warning ("some of the packages you want to uninstall are not installed.");
+      warning ("some of the packages you want to uninstall are not installed");
     endif
   endif
 
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/plot/__bar__.m
--- a/scripts/plot/__bar__.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/plot/__bar__.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@
   ylen = size (y, 1);
 
   if (xlen != ylen)
-    error ("%s: length of x and y must be equal", func)
+    error ("%s: length of x and y must be equal", func);
   endif
   if (any (x(2:end) < x(1:end-1)))
     error ("%s: x vector values must be in ascending order", func);
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/plot/__plr2__.m
--- a/scripts/plot/__plr2__.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/plot/__plr2__.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
       y = diag (sin (theta)) * rho;
       retval = __plt__ ("polar", h, x, y, fmt);
     else
-      error ("__plr2__: invalid data for plotting")
+      error ("__plr2__: invalid data for plotting");
     endif
   elseif (ismatrix (theta))
     if (isvector (rho))
@@ -112,10 +112,10 @@
       y = rho .* sin (theta);
       retval = __plt__ ("polar", h, x, y, fmt);
     else
-      error ("__plr2__: invalid data for plotting")
+      error ("__plr2__: invalid data for plotting");
     endif
   else
-    error ("__plr2__: invalid data for plotting")
+    error ("__plr2__: invalid data for plotting");
   endif
 
 endfunction
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/plot/ribbon.m
--- a/scripts/plot/ribbon.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/plot/ribbon.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -50,13 +50,13 @@
 
   if (isvector (x) && isvector (y))
     if (length (x) != length (y))
-      error ("ribbon: in case of vectors, X and Y must have same length")
+      error ("ribbon: in case of vectors, X and Y must have same length");
     else
       [x, y] = meshgrid (x, y);
     endif
   else
     if (! size_equal(x, y))
-      error ("ribbon: in case of matrices, X and Y must have same size")
+      error ("ribbon: in case of matrices, X and Y must have same size");
     endif
   endif
 
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/plot/slice.m
--- a/scripts/plot/slice.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/plot/slice.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@
     elseif (ndims (x) == 3 && size_equal (x, y, z))
       ## Do nothing.
     else
-      error ("slice: X, Y, Z size mismatch")
+      error ("slice: X, Y, Z size mismatch");
     endif
     sx = varargin{5};
     sy = varargin{6};
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/polynomial/pchip.m
--- a/scripts/polynomial/pchip.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/polynomial/pchip.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
     h = diff (x);
     y = flipud (y);
   elseif (any (h <= 0))
-    error("pchip: x must be strictly monotonic")
+    error("pchip: x must be strictly monotonic");
   endif
 
   if (rows (y) != n)
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/polynomial/roots.m
--- a/scripts/polynomial/roots.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/polynomial/roots.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@
   if (nargin != 1 || min (size (v)) > 1)
     print_usage ();
   elseif (any (isnan(v) | isinf(v)))
-    error ("roots: inputs must not contain Inf or NaN")
+    error ("roots: inputs must not contain Inf or NaN");
   endif
 
   n = numel (v);
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/set/unique.m
--- a/scripts/set/unique.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/set/unique.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -54,9 +54,9 @@
       optlast = strmatch ('last', varargin) > 0;
       optrows = strmatch ('rows', varargin) > 0 && size (x, 2) > 1;
       if (optfirst && optlast)
-        error ("unique: cannot specify both 'last' and 'first'.");
+        error ("unique: cannot specify both \"last\" and \"first\"");
       elseif (optfirst + optlast + optrows != nargin-1)
-        error ("unique: invalid option.");
+        error ("unique: invalid option");
       endif
     else
       error ("unique: options must be strings");
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/signal/fractdiff.m
--- a/scripts/signal/fractdiff.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/signal/fractdiff.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -35,11 +35,11 @@
   N = 100;
 
   if (! isvector (x))
-    error ("fractdiff: x must be a vector")
+    error ("fractdiff: x must be a vector");
   endif
 
   if (! isscalar (d))
-    error ("fractdiff: d must be a scalar")
+    error ("fractdiff: d must be a scalar");
   endif
 
 
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/signal/hurst.m
--- a/scripts/signal/hurst.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/signal/hurst.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
   endif
 
   if (isscalar (x))
-    error ("hurst: x must not be a scalar")
+    error ("hurst: x must not be a scalar");
   elseif (isvector (x))
     x = reshape (x, length (x), 1);
   endif
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/specfun/beta.m
--- a/scripts/specfun/beta.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/specfun/beta.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -46,11 +46,11 @@
   endif
 
   if (any (size (a) != size (b)) && numel (a) != 1 && numel (b) != 1)
-    error ("beta: inputs have inconsistent sizes.")
+    error ("beta: inputs have inconsistent sizes");
   endif
 
   if (! isreal (a) || ! isreal (b))
-    error ("beta: inputs must be real.")
+    error ("beta: inputs must be real");
   endif
 
   retval = real (exp (gammaln (a) + gammaln (b) - gammaln (a+b)));
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/specfun/legendre.m
--- a/scripts/specfun/legendre.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/specfun/legendre.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@
   endif
 
   if (overflow && ! warned_overflow)
-    warning ("legendre: overflow - results may be unstable for high orders.");
+    warning ("legendre: overflow - results may be unstable for high orders");
     warned_overflow = true;
   endif
 
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/statistics/base/__quantile__.m
--- a/scripts/statistics/base/__quantile__.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/statistics/base/__quantile__.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@
 	    p = kron (p, m+0.25) + 0.375;
 
           otherwise
-            error ("quantile: Unknown method, '%d'",method)
+            error ("quantile: Unknown method, '%d'", method);
         endswitch
 
 	## Duplicate single values.
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/statistics/base/quantile.m
--- a/scripts/statistics/base/quantile.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/statistics/base/quantile.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@
   endif
 
   if (dim > ndims(x))
-    error ("quantile: invalid dimension.")
+    error ("quantile: invalid dimension");
   endif
 
   ## Set the permutation vector.
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/statistics/tests/cor_test.m
--- a/scripts/statistics/tests/cor_test.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/statistics/tests/cor_test.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
   endif
 
   if (!isvector (X) || !isvector (Y) || length (X) != length (Y))
-    error ("cor_test: X and Y must be vectors of the same length")
+    error ("cor_test: X and Y must be vectors of the same length");
   endif
 
   if (nargin < 3)
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@
     t.dist = "stdnormal";
     cdf = stdnormal_cdf (t.stat);
   else
-    error ("cor_test: method `%s' not recognized", METHOD)
+    error ("cor_test: method `%s' not recognized", METHOD);
   endif
 
   if (strcmp (ALTERNATIVE, "!=") || strcmp (ALTERNATIVE, "<>"))
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/statistics/tests/kolmogorov_smirnov_test_2.m
--- a/scripts/statistics/tests/kolmogorov_smirnov_test_2.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/statistics/tests/kolmogorov_smirnov_test_2.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
   ds = diff (s);
   if (any (ds == 0))
     ## There are some ties, so keep only those changes.
-    warning ("cannot compute correct p-values with ties")
+    warning ("cannot compute correct p-values with ties");
     elems = [find(ds); n_x+n_y];
     z = z(elems);
   endif
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/strings/base2dec.m
--- a/scripts/strings/base2dec.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/strings/base2dec.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -56,10 +56,10 @@
     symbols = base;
     base = length (symbols);
     if (any (diff (sort (toascii (symbols))) == 0))
-      error ("base2dec: symbols representing digits must be unique.");
+      error ("base2dec: symbols representing digits must be unique");
     endif
   elseif (! isscalar (base))
-    error ("base2dec: cannot convert from several bases at once.");
+    error ("base2dec: cannot convert from several bases at once");
   elseif (base < 2 || base > length (symbols))
     error ("base2dec: base must be between 2 and 36 or a string of symbols");
   else
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/strings/dec2base.m
--- a/scripts/strings/dec2base.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/strings/dec2base.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
   if (numel (n) != length (n))
     n = n(:);
   elseif (any (n < 0 | n != fix (n)))
-    error ("dec2base: can only convert non-negative integers")
+    error ("dec2base: can only convert non-negative integers");
   endif
 
   symbols = "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/strings/strcat.m
--- a/scripts/strings/strcat.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/strings/strcat.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
         elseif (iscell (varargin{nv}))
           allchar = false;
         else
-          error ("strcat: inputs must be strings or cells of strings.")
+          error ("strcat: inputs must be strings or cells of strings");
         endif
         dims{nv} = size (varargin{nv});
         numstrs(nv) = numel (varargin{nv});
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@
           if (size_equal (st, varargin{nv}))
             st{ns} = [st{ns}, varargin{nv}{ns}];
           else
-            error ("strcat: arguments must be the same size, or be scalars.");
+            error ("strcat: arguments must be the same size, or be scalars");
           endif
         endfor
       endfor
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/strings/validatestring.m
--- a/scripts/strings/validatestring.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/strings/validatestring.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -74,21 +74,21 @@
 
   ## Check the inputs
   if (! ischar (str))
-    error ("validatestring: str must be a character string")
+    error ("validatestring: str must be a character string");
   elseif (rows (str) != 1)
-    error ("validatestring: str must have only one row")
+    error ("validatestring: str must have only one row");
   elseif (! iscellstr (strarray))
-    error ("validatestring: strarray must be a cellstr")
+    error ("validatestring: strarray must be a cellstr");
   elseif (! ischar (funname))
-    error ("validatestring: funname must be a character string")
+    error ("validatestring: funname must be a character string");
   elseif (! isempty (funname) && (rows (funname) != 1))
-    error ("validatestring: funname must be exactly one row")
+    error ("validatestring: funname must be exactly one row");
   elseif (! ischar (varname))
-    error ("validatestring: varname must be a character string")
+    error ("validatestring: varname must be a character string");
   elseif (! isempty (varname) && (rows (varname) != 1))
-    error ("validatestring: varname must be exactly one row")
+    error ("validatestring: varname must be exactly one row");
   elseif (position < 0)
-    error ("validatestring: position must be >= 0")
+    error ("validatestring: position must be >= 0");
   endif
 
   ## make the part of the error that will use funname, varname, and
diff -r 4238f2600a17 -r e07e93c04080 scripts/time/addtodate.m
--- a/scripts/time/addtodate.m	Wed Feb 04 16:05:01 2009 +0100
+++ b/scripts/time/addtodate.m	Wed Feb 04 10:56:23 2009 -0500
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
   elseif (! (ischar (f) && rows (f) == 1))
     ## FIXME: enhance the function so that it works with cellstrs of the
     ## same size as the output.
-    error ("addtodate: f must be a single row character string.")
+    error ("addtodate: f must be a single row character string");
   endif
 
   if (numel (d) == 1 && numel (q) > 1)
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
     mult = struct ("day", 1, "hour", 1/24, "minute", 1/1440, "second", 1/86400);
     d += q.*mult.(f);
   else
-    error ("addtodate: Invalid time unit: %s", f)
+    error ("addtodate: Invalid time unit: %s", f);
   endif
 
 endfunction