From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Mon Jan  5 16:15:34 2004
Subject: Re: plotting to Postscript doesn't work?
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Geraint Paul Bevan <g dot bevan at mech dot gla dot ac dot uk>
Cc: Bart Vandewoestyne <Bart dot Vandewoestyne at pandora dot be>,    help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 16:15:28 -0600

On  5-Jan-2004, Geraint Paul Bevan <g dot bevan at mech dot gla dot ac dot uk> wrote:

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| Bart Vandewoestyne wrote:
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| |> octave:1> plot (sin (0:10))
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| | Hmm... first of all, does the above line really work for you?  I get:
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| | octave:1> plot (sin (0:10))
| | error: octave_base_value::array_value(): wrong type argument `range'
| | error: evaluating argument list element number 1
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| 
| It works in Octave 2.1.50. However, for version 2.1.52 you have to
| enclose the range in square brackets: plot (sin ([0:10]))

The [] forces a conversion from range to matrix.  That the conversion
does not happen automatically is a bug, but it is fixed in CVS.

BTW, the recommended version is 2.1.50, so if you are new to Octave,
you might want to use that instead of 2.1.52.

jwe



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