[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #52536] contourc docstring typo: correspondence of dimensions and axes

[Antons Suspans]

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                 Summary: contourc docstring typo: correspondence of
dimensions and axes
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: antox
            Submitted on: Mon 27 Nov 2017 07:27:48 PM UTC
                Category: Documentation
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Documentation
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.2.1
        Operating System: Any

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Details:

Docs say that contourc(Z) uses X=1:rows(Z) and Y=1:columns(Z) but it is vice
versa (contour behaves consistently with surfc, etc).


c=contourc([0 2;0 2], 1)
c =

   1.0000   1.5000   1.5000
   2.0000   1.0000   2.0000

contour([0 2;0 2]), xlabel x


Diff:

--- old/octave/4.2.1/m/plot/draw/contourc.m
+++ new/octave/4.2.1/m/plot/draw/contourc.m
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@
 ##
 ## The matrix @var{z} contains height values above the rectangular grid
 ## determined by @var{x} and @var{y}.  If only a single input @var{z} is
-## provided then @var{x} is taken to be @code{1:rows (@var{z})} and @var{y}
is
-## taken to be @code{1:columns (@var{z})}.
+## provided then @var{x} is taken to be @code{1:columns (@var{z})} and
@var{y}
+## is taken to be @code{1:rows (@var{z})}.
 ##
 ## The optional input @var{vn} is either a scalar denoting the number of
 ## contour lines to compute or a vector containing the Z values where lines





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