The plot Function in matlab

from http://pundit.pratt.duke.edu/wiki/MATLAB:Plotting

The plot Function

The plot function is used to plot sets of data on a 2-D grid. What follows comes from MATLAB's help function in MATLAB R2009a^[1] (some paragraphs have been snipped out). The line styles, symbols, and colors are formatted as a clearer table.

 PLOT   Linear plot.
    PLOT(X,Y) plots vector Y versus vector X. If X or Y is a matrix,
    then the vector is plotted versus the rows or columns of the matrix,
    whichever line up.  If X is a scalar and Y is a vector, disconnected
    line objects are created and plotted as discrete points vertically at
    X.
 
    PLOT(Y) plots the columns of Y versus their index.
    If Y is complex, PLOT(Y) is equivalent to PLOT(real(Y),imag(Y)).
    In all other uses of PLOT, the imaginary part is ignored.
 
    Various line types, plot symbols and colors may be obtained with
    PLOT(X,Y,S) where S is a character string made from one element
    from any or all the following 3 columns:

Color code	Meaning
b	blue
g	green
r	red
c	cyan
m	magenta
y	yellow
k	black
w	white

Symbol code	Meaning
.	point
o	circle
x	x-mark
+	plus
*	star
s	square
d	diamond
v	triangle (down)
^	triangle (up)
<	triangle (left)
>	triangle (right)
p	pentagram
h	hexagram

Line code	Meaning
-	solid
:	dotted
-.	dash-dot
--	dashed

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    For example, PLOT(X,Y,'c+:') plots a cyan dotted line with a plus
    at each data point; PLOT(X,Y,'bd') plots blue diamond at each data
    point but does not draw any line.
 
    PLOT(X1,Y1,S1,X2,Y2,S2,X3,Y3,S3,...) combines the plots defined by
    the (X,Y,S) triples, where the X's and Y's are vectors or matrices
    and the S's are strings.
 
    For example, PLOT(X,Y,'y-',X,Y,'go') plots the data twice, with a
    solid yellow line interpolating green circles at the data points.
 
    The PLOT command, if no color is specified, makes automatic use of
    the colors specified by the axes ColorOrder property.  The default
    ColorOrder is listed in the table above for color systems where the
    default is blue for one line, and for multiple lines, to cycle
    through the first six colors in the table.  For monochrome systems,
    PLOT cycles over the axes LineStyleOrder property.
 
    If you do not specify a marker type, PLOT uses no marker.
    If you do not specify a line style, PLOT uses a solid line.
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    The X,Y pairs, or X,Y,S triples, can be followed by
    parameter/value pairs to specify additional properties
    of the lines. For example, PLOT(X,Y,'LineWidth',2,'Color',[.6 0 0])
    will create a plot with a dark red line width of 2 points.