Function generate_timeline

Generate a timeline plot with intervals.

Draws horizontal timeline in the current axes. The name of each track appears as a label on the y-axis. Each element of the starts and ends cell arrays is itself an array, so each track can start and stop either once or many times.

Credit: Kevin Bartlett (kpb@uvic.ca), 2012

Input:

• tracks (cell): An array of timeline track names.

• starts (cell): An array of vectors that indicate segment starts.

• ends (cell): An array of vectors that indicate segment ends.

• varargin[LineSpacing] (double): A number between 0 and 1, places

adjacent timelines the specified fraction of the line widths apart.

• varargin[Color] (char): Color identifier for fill color.

Output:

• handles (cell): Handles of all segment rectangles.