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##               2005, 2006, 2007 John W. Eaton
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} semilogx (@var{args})
## Produce a two-dimensional plot using a log scale for the @var{x}
## axis.  See the description of @code{plot} for a description of the
## arguments that @code{semilogx} will accept.
## @seealso{plot, semilogy, loglog}
## @end deftypefn

## Author: jwe

function retval = semilogx (varargin)

  [h, varargin] = __plt_get_axis_arg__ ("semilogx", varargin{:});

  oldh = gca ();
  unwind_protect
    axes (h);
    newplot ();

    set (h, "xscale", "log");

    tmp = __plt__ ("semilogx", h, varargin{:});

    if (nargout > 0)
      retval = tmp;
    endif
  unwind_protect_cleanup
    axes (oldh);
  end_unwind_protect

endfunction
