How to change the color of a title?

Im using the title(STRING) function to insert a title in the graph I made with the plot funcion. But I need the string to have a certain color, in this case I actually want to have the title saying:

"Month1(in magenta), Month2(in cyan), Month3(in red)"

Obviously I dont want the brackets to be there, its just so you understand what colors I want. How can I do this?

Thank you.

P.S: If there is any easier way of placing a small colored label/title in a graph other than the title(STRING) function, please do tell me!

[Jan]

Important information from the comments: The questions concerns OCTAVE !

Answer 1

[Jan]

title('\color{magenta}Month1, \color{cyan}Month2, \color{red}Month3')

It is hard to imagine, that there could be an easier solution. Isn't this nice?

[Bob Choy]

Its not working for me :(

It types the whole thing, "\color{magenta}Month1, \color{cyan}Month2, \color{red}Month3" in the title.

Also, at the moment I am using octave as a replacement for matlab, is this a problem?

[Jan]

Yes, Bob, this is a problem and it would be a good idea to post such important information in the question already. Please note that this is Matlab forum, such that your question is off-topic.

[Bob Choy]

Im sorry, I didn't know this was such a deep offense, especially when most people learn octave just because its free, so they can work with matlab later on... But I guess rules are rules, and my question is going to be left unanswered.

Thank you for your support anyways.

[Jan]

It is not an offense at all and I really appreciate Octave for some jobs. But it wastes your and my time, when I post a solution concerning Matlab, while you work with another software without explaining this. What would you think, if you spend some time (although it is a minute only) in an Octave forum to answer my question, and I reveal afterwards, that I'm working with Excel?

The GUI handling of Octave and Matlab differ substantially. If you find a good Octave forum, feel free to post the link here, such that we can suggest it for future questions.

[John Kearns]

Hey Jan,

Sorry to be late to the party on this old post, but do you know if this is possible to change the string colors to colors that are not representable with a single character? I have tried

title(['\color{#CA0066}Mean Vorticity Magnitude'])

as well as

title(['\color{[1. .4 .7020]}Mean Vorticity Magnitude'])

and both of these yielded outputs that were the verbatum title string.

Basically, my aim with this is to be able to use the default color order from plotyy() colors and color the variables represented on the respective axes in my title by the color they are plotted in. So, something similar to the output of

title(['\color{blue}Mean Vorticity Magnitude \color{black}with \color{magenta}Slice Area'])

but with the colors of [0 0.4470 0.7410] and [0.8500 0.3250 0.0980].

I appreciate any help you can offer! Thanks in advance for all the posts you've commented on that have been very instructive for me as I've worked on various problems.

Cheers,

John

[Walter Roberson]

title(STRING, 'interpreter', 'latex')