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Re: Octave specific legend call forms
From: |
Ben Abbott |
Subject: |
Re: Octave specific legend call forms |
Date: |
Thu, 10 Oct 2019 15:25:54 +0100 |
> On Oct 10, 2019, at 15:21, Pantxo Diribarne <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I am currently trying to rewrite the legend function and would like your
> opinion on an Octave specific way of manipulating legend objects. In demos we
> often use the following construct:
>
> plot (1:10);
> h = legend ("Hello");
> legend (h, "fontsize", 20);
>
> The last line is strange. We use "legend" to do what "set" should be doing.
> AFAICS this construct is not documented (only axes handles are documented to
> be possible as first argument). IMHO it doesn't feel natural to replace "set"
> by "legend" and doesn't bring any simplification so I'd like to remove this
> Octave specific call form.
>
> Any opinion?
>
> Pantxo
Matlab behaves that way.?
Ben