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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
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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} {} gtext (@var{s})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} gtext (@{@var{s1}, @var{s2}, @dots{}@})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} gtext (@{@var{s1}; @var{s2}; @dots{}@})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} gtext (@dots{}, @var{prop}, @var{val}, @dots{})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{h} =} gtext (@dots{})
## Place text on the current figure using the mouse.
##
## The text is defined by the string @var{s}.  If @var{s} is a cell string
## organized as a row vector then each string of the cell array is written to a
## separate line.  If @var{s} is organized as a column vector then one string
## element of the cell array is placed for every mouse click.
##
## Optional property/value pairs are passed directly to the underlying text
## objects.
##
## The optional return value @var{h} is a graphics handle to the created
## text object(s).
## @seealso{ginput, text}
## @end deftypefn

function h = gtext (s, varargin)

  if (nargin < 1)
    print_usage ();
  endif

  if (! (ischar (s) || iscellstr (s)))
    error ("gtext: S must be a string or cell array of strings");
  endif

  htmp = -1;
  if (! isempty (s))
    if (ischar (s) || isrow (s))
      [x, y] = ginput (1);
      htmp = text (x, y, s, varargin{:});
    else
      for i = 1:numel (s)
        [x, y] = ginput (1);
        htmp = text (x, y, s{i}, varargin{:});
      endfor
    endif
  endif

  if (nargout > 0)
    h = htmp;
  endif

endfunction


## Remove from test statistics.  No real tests possible.
%!assert (1)