Re: zoom

[Rob Mahurin]

On Apr 30, 2009, at 11:59 AM, Francesco Potorti` wrote:
> > The answer I get from Octave to the command "help zoom" is:
> >
> > zoom ...
> >  Compatibility function; does nothing
> > /usr/share/octave/packages/plot-1.0.5/zoom.m
>
> I did not know of such a function.  What you can do in the Gnuplot
> window is to right-click twice on the plot window: the two points  
> where
> you click define a rectangular window which is then zoomed.  You  
> revert
> to the 1:1 zoom by clicking the 'a' key.


You can also use
        axis()
or
        set(gca,"xlim",[low high]) and set(gca,"ylim",[low high])
from the Octave prompt.

Rob

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