## Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Michel D. Schmid
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {@var{h} =} stem (@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{linespec})
## Plot a stem graph and return the handles of the line and marker
## objects used to draw the stems.  The default color is @code{"r"}
## (red).  The default line style is @code{"-"} and the default marker is
## @code{"o"}.
##
## For example,
## @example
## x = 1:10;
## stem (x);
## @end example
## @noindent
## plots 10 stems with heights from 1 to 10;
##
## @example
## x = 1:10;
## y = ones (1, length (x))*2.*x;
## stem (x, y);
## @end example
## @noindent
## plots 10 stems with heights from 2 to 20;
## 
## @example
## x = 1:10;
## y = ones (size (x))*2.*x;
## h = stem (x, y, "b");
## @end example
## @noindent
## plots 10 bars with heights from 2 to 20
## (the color is blue, and @var{h} is a 2-by-10 array of handles in
## which the first row holds the line handles and
## the second row holds the marker handles);
##
## @example
## x = 1:10;
## y = ones (size (x))*2.*x;
## h = stem (x, y, "-.k");
## @end example
## @noindent
## plots 10 stems with heights from 2 to 20
## (the color is black, line style is @code{"-."}, and @var{h} is a 2-by-10
## array of handles in which the first row holds the line handles and
## the second row holds the marker handles);
##
## @example
## x = 1:10;
## y = ones (size (x))*2.*x;
## h = stem (x, y, "-.k.");
## @end example
## @noindent
## plots 10 stems with heights from 2 to 20
## (the color is black, line style is @code{"-."} and the marker style
## is @code{"."}, and @var{h} is a 2-by-10 array of handles in which the
## first row holds the line handles and the second row holds the marker
## handles);
##
## @example
## x = 1:10;
## y = ones (size (x))*2.*x;
## h = stem (x, y, "fill");
## @end example
## @noindent
## plots 10 stems with heights from 2 to 20
## (the color is rgb-triple defined, the line style is @code{"-"},
## the marker style is @code{"o"}, and @var{h} is a 2-by-10 array of
## handles in which the first row holds the line handles and the second
## row holds the marker handles).
##
## Color definitions with rgb-triples are not valid!
## @seealso{bar, barh, plot}
## @end deftypefn

## Author: Michel D. Schmid <michaelschmid@users.sourceforge.net>
## Adapted-by: jwe

function h = stem (varargin)

  if (nargin < 1 || nargin > 3)
    print_usage ();
  endif

  tmp = __stem__ (false, varargin{:});

  if (nargout > 0)
    h = tmp;
  endif

endfunction