Additional core 2D plotting functions

[David Bateman]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> | The patch also modifies the polar function, though John you might choose
> | to drop this part. My issue with polar is that the matlab version, draws
> | a circular patch object, and then adds circular and radial dashed lines
> | to it. Although no handle is returned to these you can see they exist with
> | 
> | h = polar(1:10)
> | get(gca(),'children')
>
> With your changes I still only see one child.  Is that what you
> intended, or did you make some changes to add the circular and radial
> lines that were not submitted?
>
> Also, I only see one child with Matlab, and I don't see at all how or
> where the polar labels and grid are determined, and "grid off" doesn't
> turn it off.
>   

Yes, gnuplot doesn't have dashed lines for the X11 terminal and so I
felt it was better not to try and duplicate completely matlab, but at
least make the axes a reasonable approximation.

D.

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