Re: Matlab compat question

[Julien Bect]

Le 20/06/2016 à 04:55, Daniel J Sebald a écrit :
> On 06/14/2016 10:02 AM, Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:
> > Thanks Ray!
> >
> > So fltk and qt do it right and gnuplot does it wrong...
> >
> > Dmitri.
>
> I don't know if this is classified wrong.  The gnuplot toolkit accepts 
> 'y' as yellow, but that is not a valid color in Octave (and Matlab?) 
> definitions (only 'k' 'r' 'g' 'b' 'm' 'c' 'w'). That's along the same 
> lines that Octave accepts "endwhile" as syntax whereas Matlab would 
> throw and error.  In both cases, different behavior for syntax not 
> defined.  It would be easy to change 'y' to black for gnuplot toolkit, 
> but I don't know if it makes a difference one way or another.

'y' is also the shortcut for yellow in Matlab:

http://fr.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/plot.html?requestedDomain=www.mathworks.com#inputarg_LineSpec

So, Octave should support 'y' in all graphics toolkits.

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Julien