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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 78f57b14535c
children df4c4b7708a4
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## Copyright (C) 2008-2012 David Bateman
##
## 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} {} ezplot (@var{f})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} ezplot (@var{f2v})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} ezplot (@var{fx}, @var{fy})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} ezplot (@dots{}, @var{dom})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} ezplot (@dots{}, @var{n})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} ezplot (@var{hax}, @dots{})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{h} =} ezplot (@dots{})
##
## Plot the 2-D curve defined by the function @var{f}.
##
## The function @var{f} may be a string, inline function, or function handle
## and can have either one or two variables.  If @var{f} has one variable, then
## the function is plotted over the domain @code{-2*pi < @var{x} < 2*pi}
## with 500 points.
##
## If @var{f2v} is a function of two variables then the implicit function
## @code{@var{f}(@var{x},@var{y}) = 0} is calculated over the meshed domain
## @code{-2*pi <= @var{x} | @var{y} <= 2*pi} with 60 points in each dimension.
##
## For example:
##
## @example
## ezplot (@@(@var{x}, @var{y}) @var{x}.^2 - @var{y}.^2 - 1)
## @end example
##
## If two functions are passed as inputs then the parametric function
##
## @example
## @group
## @var{x} = @var{fx} (@var{t})
## @var{y} = @var{fy} (@var{t})
## @end group
## @end example
##
## @noindent
## is plotted over the domain @code{-2*pi <= @var{t} <= 2*pi} with 500 points.
##
## If @var{dom} is a two element vector, it represents the minimum and maximum
## values of both @var{x} and @var{y}, or @var{t} for a parametric plot.  If
## @var{dom} is a four element vector, then the minimum and maximum values are
## @code{[xmin xmax ymin ymax]}.
##
## @var{n} is a scalar defining the number of points to use in plotting
## the function.
##
## 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 vector of graphics handles to
## the created line objects.
##
## @seealso{plot, ezplot3, ezpolar, ezcontour, ezcontourf, ezmesh, ezmeshc, ezsurf, ezsurfc}
## @end deftypefn

function h = ezplot (varargin)

  [htmp, needusage] = __ezplot__ ("plot", varargin{:});

  if (needusage)
    print_usage ();
  endif

  if (nargout > 0)
    h = htmp;
  endif

endfunction


%!demo
%! ## sinc function using function handle
%! f = @(x) sin (pi*x) ./ (pi*x);
%! ezplot (f);

%!demo
%! ## example of a function string and explicit limits
%! clf;
%! ezplot ('1/x', [-2 2]);

%!demo
%! ## parameterized function example over -2*pi <= t <= +2*pi
%! clf;
%! ezplot (@cos, @sin);

%!demo
%! ## implicit function of 2 variables
%! clf;
%! ezplot (inline ('x^2 - y^2 - 1'));