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Re: criptic phrasing in the manual
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Luke M |
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Re: criptic phrasing in the manual |
Date: |
Mon, 28 Feb 2011 09:25:55 -0800 (PST) |
Oz Nahum wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I can't understand the following sentences in the manual, page 216 in the
> manual of v3.4:
>
> ‘nm ’ If nm is a two digit integer and m is an integer in the range 1 to
> 6,
> m is
> interpreted as the point style. This is only valid in combination
> with
> the
> @ or -@ specifiers.
>
> later there is a really weird (*imho*) example:
>
> Here are some plot examples:
> plot (x, y, "@12", x, y2, x, y3, "4", x, y4, "+")
> This command will plot y with points of type 2 (displayed as ‘+’) and
> color
> 1 (red),
> y2 with lines, y3 with lines of color 4 (magenta) and y4 with points
> displayed as ‘+’.
>
> when I test this example with the following:
>
> x=[-pi:pi/8:pi];
> y=sin(x);
> y2=cos(x);
> y3=x.^2;
> y4=x*3;
> plot (x, y, "@12", x, y2, x, y3, "4", x, y4, "+")
>
> I get the following:
> sin(x) - plotted as bright green +
> cos(x) - plotted as blue curve
> x.^2 - plotted as magenta curve
> x*3 is plotted as dark green +
>
> Is it just me ? or is it happening with more people ? I tried octave 3.2
> from the Debian repositories.
Confirmed in 3.4. I've never seen that "@12" usage before, so I can only
confirm that it is wrong. A bit of tinkering and I found that changing the
first number doesn't change anything, and the second number is the color.
Change it to "@11" and it comes out as red pluses. Or "@x1" where x is any
number, for that matter.
For the user, though, I wouldn't worry rack your brain over this too much.
If you want red pluses, use "r+". I don't see any advantage to memorizing
or using this obscure syntax.
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