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+## Copyright (C) 1993-2012 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.
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+## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see
+## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Function File} {} semilogx (@var{y})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} semilogx (@var{x}, @var{y})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} semilogx (@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{property}, @var{value}, @dots{})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} semilogx (@var{x}, @var{y}, @var{fmt})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} semilogx (@var{h}, @dots{})
+## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{h} =} semilogx (@dots{})
+## Produce a two-dimensional plot using a logarithmic scale for the @var{x}
+## axis. See the documentation of @code{plot} for a description of the
+## arguments that @code{semilogx} will accept.
+##
+## The optional return value @var{h} is a graphics handle to the created plot.
+## @seealso{plot, semilogy, loglog}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Author: jwe
+
+function retval = semilogx (varargin)
+
+ [h, varargin, nargs] = __plt_get_axis_arg__ ("semilogx", varargin{:});
+
+ if (nargs < 1)
+ print_usage();
+ endif
+
+ oldh = gca ();
+ unwind_protect
+ axes (h);
+ newplot ();
+
+ set (h, "xscale", "log");
+ if (any( strcmp (get (gca, "nextplot"), {"new", "replace"})))
+ set (h, "xminortick", "on");
+ endif
+
+ tmp = __plt__ ("semilogx", h, varargin{:});
+
+ if (nargout > 0)
+ retval = tmp;
+ endif
+ unwind_protect_cleanup
+ axes (oldh);
+ end_unwind_protect
+
+endfunction
+
+
+%!demo
+%! clf ();
+%! x = 1:0.01:10;
+%! y = (x .* (1 + rand (size (x)))) .^ 2;
+%! semilogx (y, x);
+
+%!demo
+%! clf ();
+%! x = logspace (-5, 1, 10);
+%! y = logspace (-5, 1, 10);
+%!
+%! subplot (1, 2, 1);
+%! semilogx (x, y);
+%! xlabel ("semilogx (x, y)");
+%!
+%! subplot (1, 2, 2);
+%! semilogx (-x, y);
+%! xlabel ("semilogx (-x, y)");
+
+%!demo
+%! clf ();
+%! x = logspace (-5, 1, 10);
+%! y = logspace (-5, 1, 10);
+%!
+%! subplot (1, 2, 1);
+%! semilogx (x, y);
+%! set (gca, "xdir", "reverse", "activepositionproperty", "outerposition")
+%! xlabel ({"semilogx (x, y)", "xdir = reversed"})
+%!
+%! subplot (1, 2, 2);
+%! semilogx (-x, y);
+%! set (gca, "xdir", "reverse", "activepositionproperty", "outerposition");
+%! xlabel ({"semilogx (-x, y)", "xdir = reversed"});
+
+%!test
+%! hf = figure ("visible", "off");
+%! unwind_protect
+%! a = logspace (-5, 1, 10);
+%! b = logspace (-5, 1, 10);
+%! semilogx (a, b)
+%! assert (get (gca, "xscale"), "log");
+%! assert (get (gca, "yscale"), "linear");
+%! unwind_protect_cleanup
+%! close (hf);
+%! end_unwind_protect
+
+%!test
+%! hf = figure ("visible", "off");
+%! unwind_protect
+%! a =-logspace (-5, 1, 10);
+%! b = logspace (-5, 1, 10);
+%! semilogx (a, b);
+%! axis tight;
+%! assert (all (get (gca, "xtick") < 0));
+%! unwind_protect_cleanup
+%! close (hf);
+%! end_unwind_protect
+