title that spans subplots

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Stewart Wiseman
Stewart Wiseman on 12 Aug 2011
Answered: Steven Lord on 23 Oct 2018
Hi, I am a newbie. How can I add a title so that it spans across two graphs plotted with subplot? (I can add titles to individual plots and even add a title to a figure window but neither of these is what I want). Thanks

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Patrick Kalita
Patrick Kalita on 12 Aug 2011
An annotation is good to use here. It is a little easier than the text command because the position is relative to the figure -- not one of the axes. Here's an example:
subplot(1,2,1), plot(1:10)
subplot(1,2,2), plot(1:10)
annotation('textbox', [0 0.9 1 0.1], ...
'String', 'hello, title', ...
'EdgeColor', 'none', ...
'HorizontalAlignment', 'center')
If this is just a one-off thing, you can also add an annotation interactively. That is described here in the documentation.

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Sean de Wolski
Sean de Wolski on 12 Aug 2011
How about with super title!
doc suptitle
What it looks like:
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Sean de Wolski
Sean de Wolski on 12 Aug 2011
Oh. I thought it was standard.
It's in the Bio toolbox as part of a yeast infection demo.
*A word may have been inserted for humor's sake.
Stewart Wiseman
Stewart Wiseman on 13 Aug 2011
A super title is entirely logical, but didn't work on my version. :(

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Steven Lord
Steven Lord on 23 Oct 2018
If you're using release R2018b or later, use sgtitle.

the cyclist
the cyclist on 12 Aug 2011
One way to do this is with the text() command:
>> subplot(1,2,1), plot(1:10)
>> subplot(1,2,2), plot(1:10)
>> text(-10,10.2,'Test title spanning two subplots -- Some fine tuning will be required')
>>
In this case, the text positioning is relatively to the second axes.

Shahzad ali Zardari
Shahzad ali Zardari on 23 Oct 2018
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