Re: invalid character for plot (x, y, FMT)

[James Sherman Jr.]

On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Mike Miller <address@hidden> wrote:
> Please always reply to the mailing list and preserve order (fixed).
>
> On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 15:30:21 +0100, Jonathan Camilleri wrote:
>> On 8 December 2015 at 15:09, Mike Miller <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > You have quoted the 'x' character with a backtick, this is the incorrect
>> > character, it should be a single quote, the same character before and
>> > after the symbol. What help resource indicated that this is valid
>> > syntax?
>>
>> I typed help <name of command>
>
> This may be a minor bug in Texinfo on Windows, can someone confirm
> whether "help plot" in Windows shows the wrong quote characters in the
> list of marker styles? Can the text be copied and pasted directly into
> the plot function as the format argument?
>
> Thanks,
>
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> mike
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On Octave-4.0.0 on windows, the actual plot examples in the help file
are correct ( they use double quotes ) such as:

> plot (x, y, "or", x, y2, x, y3, "m", x, y4, "+")

However, when listing different options (this may have been where Jon
was confused), such as the different color options, the single
characters are listed as <backtick character single_quote>, such as:

> color
          `k'  blacK
          `r'  Red
          `g'  Green
          `b'  Blue
          `m'  Magenta
          `c'  Cyan
          `w'  White

Was this what as confusing, Jon?

James Sherman