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textbp: text with legend-style "best" placement

by Peter Mao

19 Jun 2006 (Updated 20 Jun 2006)

Code covered by BSD License

automatically locates text annotation to minimize figure obscuration

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Description	Sometimes the exact location of some text annotation doesn't matter. This works just like TEXT (including the property calls) except one does not specify an X,Y location. The subroutine TSCAN (modified from the Matlab LSCAN routine) automatically places the text, with a preference for the bottom/left corner.
MATLAB release	MATLAB 7.2 (R2006a)
Other requirements	none

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Comments and Ratings (3)
25 Jun 2006	Tak Kunihiro	This is a code that I was looking for. Since a command "legend" has similar functionality I even though that there might be a command already. I have been using "legend" to put all information in the plot, which was pain in the neck. Now I can make a plot with all experimental parameters.
17 Oct 2006	Bob Solimeno	Beautiful! This code does exactly what I want to achieve. A very nice, simple substiture for the MATLAB text command where hands-off annotation is desired!
05 Jan 2009	Scott Foster	This is a great bit of code for what it does. Very easy to use, and exactly what I was looking for.

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Tag Activity for this File
Tag	Applied By	Date/Time
annotation	Peter Mao	22 Oct 2008 08:30:03
customization	Peter Mao	22 Oct 2008 08:30:03
text	Peter Mao	22 Oct 2008 08:30:03
location	Peter Mao	22 Oct 2008 08:30:03
placement	Peter Mao	22 Oct 2008 08:30:03
automatic	Peter Mao	22 Oct 2008 08:30:03
best	Peter Mao	22 Oct 2008 08:30:03
potw	Shari Freedman	20 Apr 2009 12:56:05

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