## Copyright (C) 1996 John W. Eaton
##
## This file is part of Octave.
##
## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
## any later version.
##
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## usage: semilogy (x, y)
##        semilogy (x1, y1, x2, y2, ...)
##        semilogy (x, y, fmt)
##
## Make a 2D plot of y versus x using a log scale for the x axis.
##
## See the help message for the plot command for a description of how
## the arguments are interpreted.
##
## See also: plot, semilogx, loglog, polar, mesh, contour, bar, stairs,
##           gplot, gsplot, replot, xlabel, ylabel, title

## Author: jwe

function semilogy (...)

  ## XXX FIXME XXX -- these plot states should really just be set
  ## temporarily, probably inside an unwind_protect block, but there is
  ## no way to determine their current values.

  gset nologscale x;
  gset logscale y;
  gset nopolar;

  __plt__ ("semilogy", all_va_args);

endfunction
