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+## Copyright (C) 1996-2012 John W. Eaton
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
+## Octave 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.
+##
+## Octave 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 Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see
+## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {} __axis_label__ (@var{caller}, @var{h}, @var{txt}, @dots{})
+## Undocumented internal function.
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Author: jwe
+
+function retval = __axis_label__ (ah, caller, txt, varargin)
+
+ h = get (ah, caller);
+
+ set (h, "fontangle", get (ah, "fontangle"),
+ "fontname", get (ah, "fontname"),
+ "fontsize", get (ah, "fontsize"),
+ "fontunits", get (ah, "fontunits"),
+ "fontweight", get (ah, "fontweight"),
+ "string", txt,
+ varargin{:});
+
+ if (nargout > 0)
+ retval = h;
+ endif
+
+endfunction