Graphics

Example -- Multiline Text

MATLAB supports multiline text strings using cell arrays. Simply define a string variable as a cell array with one line per cell. This example defines two cell arrays, one used for a uicontrol and the other as text.

• str1(1) = {'Center each line in the Uicontrol'};
  str1(2) = {'Also check out the textwrap function'};
  str2(1) = {'Each cell is a quoted string'};
  str2(2) = {'You can specify how the string is aligned'};
  str2(3) = {'You can use LaTeX symbols like \pi \chi \Xi'};
  str2(4) = {'\bfOr use bold \rm\itor italic font\rm'};
  str2(5) = {'\fontname{courier}Or even change fonts'};
  plot(0:6,sin(0:6))
  uicontrol('Style','text','Position',[80 80 200 30],...
            'String',str1);
  text(5.75,sin(2.5),str2,'HorizontalAlignment','right')
  
  
  

Using Character and Numeric Variables in Text

Drawing Text in a Box

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