> On Oct 10, 2019, at 15:21, Pantxo Diribarne <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> 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:
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> plot (1:10);
> h = legend ("Hello");
> legend (h, "fontsize", 20);
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> 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.
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> Any opinion?
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> Pantxo
Matlab behaves that way.?
Ben
No, Matlab (2019b, tested online) forbids legend objects as first argument.
Pantxo