title with subplot

[Benito]

I want to create a title in a figure with 4 subplots. But i want a great
title for the figure and diferent titles for each subplots...
Thanks for the help

[Ioan (Nelu) Buciu]

Benito wrote:

Dear Matlab user,

You can do it in this way. I give you an example:

subplot(2,2,1)
title('Title1','FontName','Times','Fontsize',6)
subplot(2,2,2)
title('Title2','FontName','Times','Fontsize',8)
subplot(2,2,3)
title('Title3','FontName','Times','Fontsize',10)
subplot(2,2,4)
title('Title4','FontName','Times','Fontsize',12)
text(-0.35,2.52,'Title','FontName','Times','Fontsize',16)

or you can use

gtext({'Title'},'FontName','Times','Fontsize',16)

instead of last line (if you want to put the text by help of mouse).
I hope it will help you.

Best redargs,

Ioan Buciu
Computer Science Department,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

[Michael Robbins]

Use the title command for the subplots:

subplot(2,2,1);
title('first');

subplot(2,2,2);
title('second');

etc.

For the figure title, use suptitle. You can find in on TMW website
under user downloads.

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Director, Debt Capital Markets
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, World Markets
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[John Cristion]

I found this at the MATLAB site under user contributed m files. Works
well for me.

John

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function hout=suptitle(str)
%SUPTITLE Puts a title above all subplots.
% SUPTITLE('text') adds text to the top of the figure
% above all subplots (a "super title"). Use this function
% after all subplot commands.

% Drea Thomas 6/15/95 dr...@mathworks.com

% John Cristion 12/13/00 modified

% Warning: If the figure or axis units are non-default, this
% will break.

% This will disable sub- and super-scripts (JAC)

set(0,'DefaultTextInterpreter','none');

% Parameters used to position the supertitle.

% Amount of the figure window devoted to subplots
plotregion = .92;

% Y position of title in normalized coordinates
titleypos = .95;

% Fontsize for supertitle
%fs = get(gcf,'defaultaxesfontsize')+4;

fs = get(gcf,'defaultaxesfontsize');

% Fudge factor to adjust y spacing between subplots
fudge=1;

haold = gca;
figunits = get(gcf,'units');

% Get the (approximate) difference between full height (plot + title
% + xlabel) and bounding rectangle.

if (~strcmp(figunits,'pixels')),
set(gcf,'units','pixels');
pos = get(gcf,'position');
set(gcf,'units',figunits);
else,
pos = get(gcf,'position');
end
ff = (fs-4)*1.27*5/pos(4)*fudge;

% The 5 here reflects about 3 characters of height below
% an axis and 2 above. 1.27 is pixels per point.

% Determine the bounding rectange for all the plots

% h = findobj('Type','axes');

% findobj is a 4.2 thing.. if you don't have 4.2 comment out
% the next line and uncomment the following block.

h = findobj(gcf,'Type','axes'); % Change suggested by Stacy J. Hills

% If you don't have 4.2, use this code instead
%ch = get(gcf,'children');
%h=[];
%for i=1:length(ch),
% if strcmp(get(ch(i),'type'),'axes'),
% h=[h,ch(i)];
% end
%end

max_y=0;
min_y=1;

oldtitle =0;
for i=1:length(h),
if (~strcmp(get(h(i),'Tag'),'suptitle')),
pos=get(h(i),'pos');
if (pos(2) < min_y), min_y=pos(2)-ff/5*3;end;
if (pos(4)+pos(2) > max_y), max_y=pos(4)+pos(2)+ff/5*2;end;
else,
oldtitle = h(i);
end
end

if max_y > plotregion,
scale = (plotregion-min_y)/(max_y-min_y);
for i=1:length(h),
pos = get(h(i),'position');
pos(2) = (pos(2)-min_y)*scale+min_y;
pos(4) = pos(4)*scale-(1-scale)*ff/5*3;
set(h(i),'position',pos);
end
end

np = get(gcf,'nextplot');
set(gcf,'nextplot','add');
if (oldtitle),
delete(oldtitle);
end
ha=axes('pos',[0 1 1 1],'visible','off','Tag','suptitle');
ht=text(.5,titleypos-1,str);set(ht,'horizontalalignment','center','fontsize',fs);
set(gcf,'nextplot',np);
axes(haold);
if nargout,
hout=ht;
end

[Michael Robbins]

Yes that's it, but I don't know if it's OK to post it like that.

[Jan Even Nilsen]

Michael Robbins wrote:

> Yes that's it, but I don't know if it's OK to post it like that.

Why should it not?

It has got the signatures in it, and it is already posted to an open
site. This just saves us the hustle of going there to look at it and
then download it.

Even Nilsen