--- /dev/null
+## Copyright (C) 2011 Carnë Draug <carandraug+dev@gmail.com>
+## Copyright (c) 2011 Juan Pablo Carbajal <carbajal@ifi.uzh.ch>
+## Improvement based on John W. Eaton's idea.
+##
+## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+## (at your option) any later version.
+##
+## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+## but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+## GNU General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {} function_name ()
+## @end deftypefn
+
+function varargout = subsref (obj, idx)
+
+ persistent __method__ method4field typeNotImplemented
+ if isempty(__method__)
+
+ __method__ = struct();
+
+ __method__.plot = @(o,varargin) plot (o, varargin{:});
+ __method__.getpath = @(o,varargin) getpath (o, varargin{:});
+ __method__.pathid = @(o,varargin) pathid(o,varargin{:});
+ __method__.path2polygon = @(o,varargin) path2polygon (o, varargin{:});
+ __method__.normalize = @(o,varargin) normalize (o, varargin{:});
+ __method__.height = @(o,varargin) height(o, varargin{:});
+ __method__.width = @(o,varargin) width(o,varargin{:});
+
+ # Error strings
+ method4field = "Class %s has no field %s. Use %s() for the method.";
+ typeNotImplemented = "%s no implemented for class %s.";
+
+ end
+
+ if ( !strcmp (class (obj), 'svg') )
+ error ("Object must be of the svg class but '%s' was used", class (obj) );
+ elseif ( idx(1).type != '.' )
+ error ("Invalid index for class %s", class (obj) );
+ endif
+
+ method = idx(1).subs;
+ if ~isfield(__method__, method)
+ error('Unknown method %s.',method);
+ else
+ fhandle = __method__.(method);
+ end
+
+ if strcmp(method,'normalize')
+ warning("svg:Devel",["Not returning second output argument of %s" ...
+ " use method(obj) API to get it"],method);
+ end
+
+ if numel (idx) == 1 % can't access properties, only methods
+
+ error (method4field, class (obj), method, method);
+
+ end
+
+ if strcmp (idx(2).type, '()')
+
+ args = idx(2).subs;
+ if isempty(args)
+ out = fhandle (obj);
+ else
+ out = fhandle (obj, args{:});
+ end
+
+ varargout{1} = out;
+
+ else
+
+ error (typeNotImplemented,[method idx(2).type], class (obj));
+
+ end
+
+endfunction