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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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1 ## Copyright (C) 2007-2012 David Bateman
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15 ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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16 ## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see
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17 ## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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19 ## -*- texinfo -*-
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20 ## @deftypefn {Function File} {} caxis (@var{limits})
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21 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} caxis ("auto")
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22 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} caxis ("manual")
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23 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} caxis (@var{hax}, @dots{})
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24 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{limits} =} caxis ()
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25 ## Query or set color axis limits for plots.
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26 ##
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27 ## The argument @var{limits} should be a 2-element vector specifying the
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28 ## lower and upper limits to assign to the first and last value in the
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29 ## colormap. Values outside this range are clamped to the first and last
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30 ## colormap entries.
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31 ##
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32 ## If @var{limits} is "auto", then automatic colormap scaling is applied,
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33 ## whereas if @var{limits} is "manual" the colormap scaling is set to manual.
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34 ##
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35 ## If the first argument @var{hax} is an axes handle, then operate on
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36 ## this axis rather than the current axes returned by @code{gca}.
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37 ##
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38 ## Called without arguments the current color axis limits are returned.
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39 ## @seealso{colormap}
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40 ## @end deftypefn
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42 function limits = caxis (varargin)
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44 [hax, varargin, nargin] = __plt_get_axis_arg__ ("caxis", varargin{:});
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46 oldfig = ifelse (isempty (hax), [], get (0, "currentfigure"));
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47 unwind_protect
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49 hax = gca ();
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50 endif
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51 if (nargin == 0)
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52 limits = __caxis__ (hax);
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53 else
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54 __caxis__ (hax, varargin{:});
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55 endif
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56 unwind_protect_cleanup
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57 if (! isempty (oldfig))
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58 set (0, "currentfigure", oldfig);
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59 endif
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60 end_unwind_protect
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64 function limits = __caxis__ (ca, ax, varargin)
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66 if (nargin == 1)
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67 limits = get (ca, "clim");
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69 if (strcmpi (ax, "auto"))
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70 set (ca, "climmode", "auto");
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71 elseif (strcmpi (ax, "manual"))
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72 set (ca, "climmode", "manual");
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73 endif
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74 elseif (isvector (ax))
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75 len = length (ax);
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76 if (len != 2)
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77 error ("caxis: expecting vector with 2 elements");
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78 endif
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80 set (ca, "clim", [ax(1), ax(2)]);
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81 else
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82 error ("caxis: expecting no args, a string, or a 2 element vector");
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85 ## FIXME: Why should it be possible to call __caxis__ recursively?
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