ylabel rotation

[Ben Abbott]

On Thursday, January 29, 2009, at 04:42PM, "John W. Eaton" <jwe at octave.org> wrote:
>On 29-Jan-2009, Ben Abbott wrote:
>
>| I noticed you pushed two changes to ylabel.m 8 days ago.
>| 
>| The first included the line
>| 
>|        http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/d81caf2e3a28
>| 
>|        +    varargin = {varargin{1}, "rotation", 90, varargin{2:end}};
>| 
>| The second removed it.
>| 
>|        http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/ab82e19002c4
>| 
>|        -    varargin = {varargin{1}, "rotation", 90, varargin{2:end}};
>| 
>| I assume the second change was unintended?
>
>No, it was intended.  The idea was that the {x,y,z}label functions
>should not be creating new text objects, but should simply set values
>in the existing text object that is a child of the axes object, and
>that those objects should be created with the proper defaults.  I
>thought I also made that change.  When I execute
>
>  get (get (gca, 'ylabel'), 'rotation')
>
>I get 90 and ylabel ('foo') sets foo as the label and it is rotated.
>So it seems to be working for me.  In what cases does it fail?
>
>jwe

Before commenting further, I should compile and make sure my build isn't out of date.

I'll report back in an hour or two.

Ben