From help-request at octave dot org Fri Mar 11 20:02:40 2005
Subject: Page 143: octave manual first plot examples
From: Alan Ezust <alan dot ezust at gmail dot com>
To: "Dmitri A. Sergatskov" <dasergatskov at gmail dot com>
Cc: Help-Octave <help at octave dot org>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 18:07:27 -0800

Yeah, I was just taking the first example in the manual and trying it
out. It's on page 143.  Perhaps that should be updated to use the
newer API... I assume this one is compatible with matlab whereas the
previous one was more gnuplot specific?


On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 11:04:43 -0700, Dmitri A. Sergatskov
<dasergatskov at gmail dot com> wrote:
> Alan Ezust wrote:
> > aha, upgraded and the problem went away. should have tried that first :-)
> >
> 
> But actually you should have used
> 
> plot(rand(100,1),"-*;;")
> 
> instead.
> 
> Try to avoid using gplot and gset functions unless high-level
> functions like plot,print,axis will not do what you want.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Dmitri
> (still hoping that gplot and gset will go away in 3.x.x)
> --
> 
> 


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