Symbols 

: operator

algorithms
    vectorizing
animation
annotating plots
ans
Application Program Interface (API)
Array Editor
array operators
arrays <1> <2>
    cell
    character
    columnwise organization
    concatenating
    creating in M-files
    deleting rows and columns
    deleting rows or columns
    elements
    generating with functions and operators
    listing contents
    loading from external data files
    multidimensional
    notation for elements
    preallocating
    structure
    variable names
arrow keys for editing commands
aspect ratio of axes
axes
axis
    labels
    titles
axis 4-10

bookmarking documentation
break

case
cell arrays
char
character arrays
characteristic polynomial
colon operator
colormap
colors
    lines for plotting
Command History
command line editing
Command Window
complex numbers, plotting
concatenating
    arrays
    strings
concatenation
configuring the desktop
constants
    special
contents in Help browser
continue
continuing statements on multiple lines
control keys for editing commands
current directory
Current Directory browser

debugging M-files
deleting array elements
demo
    viewing and running
demonstration programs
demos, running from the Start button
desktop for MATLAB
desktop tools
determinant of matrix
development environment
diag
display pane in Help browser
documentation

editing command lines
editing plots
    interactively
Editor/Debugger
eigenvalue
eigenvector
elements of arrays
entering matrices
environment
erase mode
eval
executing MATLAB
exiting MATLAB
exporting data
expressions <1> <2>
    evaluating
external programs, running from MATLAB

favorites in Help browser
figure 4-8
figure windows
    with multiple plots
find
finding in a page
finding object handles
fliplr
floating-point numbers
flow control
for
format
    of output display
format
function
function functions
function handles
    defined
    using
function M-file <1> <2>
function of two variables
functions <1> <2>
    built-in
    variable number of arguments

global variables
graphical user interface
graphics
    2-D
    files
    handle graphics
    objects
    printing
grids

Handle Graphics <1> <2>
    finding handles
Help browser
help functions
Help Navigator
hierarchy of graphics objects
hold 4-7

if
images
imaginary number
Import Wizard
importing data
index in Help browser

keys for editing in Command Window

Launch Pad
legend
legend, adding to plot
library
    mathematical function
lighting
limits, axes
line continuation
line styles of plots
load
loading arrays
local variables
log of functions used
logical vectors

magic
magic square
markers
MAT-file
mathematical function library
mathematical functions
    listing advanced
    listing elementary
    listing matrix
MATLAB
    Application Program Interface
    history
    language
    mathematical function library
    overview
matrices
    creating
    entering
matrix
    antidiagonal
    determinant
    main diagonal
    singular
    swapping columns
    symmetric
    transpose
matrix multiplication
mesh plot
M-file <1> <2> <3>
    creating
    for creating arrays
    function <1> <2>
    script
M-files
Microsoft Word and access to MATLAB
movies
multidimensional arrays
multiple data sets, plotting
multiple plots per figure
multivariate data, organizing

newsgroup for MATLAB users
Notebook
numbers
    floating-point

object properties
objects
    finding handles
    graphics
online help, viewing
operator
    colon
output
    controlling format
    suppressing
overlaying plots

path
plot 4-2
plot editing mode
    overview
plots
    editing
plotting
    adding legend
    adding plots
    annotating
    basic
    complex data
    complex numbers
    contours
    line colors
    line styles
    lines and markers
    mesh and surface
    multiple data sets
    multiple plots
PostScript
preallocation
preferences
print 4-24
printing
    graphics
Profiler
Property Editor
    interface

quitting MATLAB

revision control systems, interfacing to MATLAB
running functions
running MATLAB

scalar expansion
scientific notation
script M-file
scripts
search path
searching documentation
semicolon to suppress output
shutting down MATLAB
singular matrix
source control systems, interfacing to MATLAB
special constants
    infinity
    not-a-number
Start button
starting MATLAB
statements
    continuing on multiple lines
    executing
strings
    concatenating
structures
subplot 4-9
subscripting
    with logical vectors
subscripts
sum
suppressing output
surface plot
switch
symmetric matrix

text
TIFF
title
    figure
toolbox
tools in the desktop
transpose

user interface
    building

variables
    global
    local
vector
    logical
    preallocating
vectorization
version control systems, interfacing to MATLAB
viewing documentation
visibility of axes

while
windows for plotting
windows in MATLAB
wireframe
    surface
Word and access to MATLAB
word processing access to MATLAB
workspace
Workspace browser

xor erase mode