I have a problem related with the plot command. In details, I need to plot several functions on the same plot (and for this I use the Show command….no problems here) but each plot origin must be placed exactly in correspondence to the last point of the previous. Unfortunately, in calculations defining my functions (so because of the nature of the problem) for each of these functions, the starting position must be zero. This implies that I can draw my plots together but they all have origin in zero. Is it possible to add, for example, an extra option to force an offset just to displace the actual plot with respect to an other? I looked for this issue in previous answers but I could not find something similar. Just to give an example, I have two functions f1 and f2. I need to plot them in cascade so, f1 between [0,5] and f2 between [5,20], but f2 must be calculated in [0,15]. The best I could obtain is to have both of them in [0,15]. I tried something like Plot[f2,{x,0+ffset,15+offset}] but it modifies also data in f2, and I don't want this at all.... Thank you in advance for any help

thank you for your explainations. Both of the proposed solutions:

Plot[g[x - a] - g[0] + f[a], {x, a, a+b}] by Michael E2
f3[x_] := Piecewise[{{f1[x], 0 <= x<= 5}, {f2[x - 5], 5 < x <= 20}}] by m_goldberg

look to be promising but as the real problem is a little more complicated and being a newbie with mathematica, I'll try to be more specific. I want to draw light propagation inside an optical system by using ABCD matrices. As an example, I define three matrices m6,m7 and m8

m6 = {{1, x}, {0, 1}}; 
m7 = {{1, 0}, {-1/f, 1}}; 
m8 = {{1, ldl}, {0, 1}}; 

where x and ldl are distances and f is a fixed numerical value for a lens power.

I use these numerical values:

y0 = 10 10^-6;
t0 = 0 Pi/180;
f = 50 10^-3;
ldlt = 10 10^-2;
xt = 30 10^-2;

Then I want to plot the trends of y1 and y2 given by

{y1, t1} = m8.{y0, t0} 
y1t = Table[y1, {ldl, 0, ldlt, ldlt/100 }];
t1t = Table[t1, {ldl, 0, ldlt, ldlt/100 }];
{y2, t2} = m6.m7.{y1t[[101]], t1t[[101]]}. 

y1t and t1t are the last values of y0 and t0 vectors. I tried with

Show[Plot[y1, {ldl, 0, ldlt}], Plot[y2, {x, 0, xt}]] 

to plot both of them but doing like this, y2 (the inclined line) will always start from the origin and not from the last point of y1 (0.1 in the attached graph).

Then, each matrix will use a different name for the spatial variable, so for me, x is reserved to a parameter that I want to optimize; I have 20 matrices like this in the code.

So the problem is how to make each plot start from the end of the previous one ideally by keeping the proper spatial variable name (ldl, x, whatever).

Thank you for any help