tick2text: create easy-to-customize tick labels

Changes tick marks to text objects that can be easily customized, maintains customization in zooming

Description

This function creates text objects that mimic x, y, and z tick labels, while the original tick labels are removed. The text object format allows more modification (such as color, rotation, etc) than the original tick labels, and also allows TeX strings to be utilized in tick labels. The modifications to the tick labels are maintained during zooming and panning as well.

Acknowledgements

The author wishes to acknowledge the following in the creation of this submission:
Format Tick Labels

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.4 (R2007a)
• Other requirements: Requires R2007a+ for zoom and pan

[Mukhtar Ullah]

Very clever!
If the tick-label position is computed relative to xlabel, ylabel and zlabel, this function can be extended to 3-D figures as well.

[Mukhtar Ullah]

Sorry, forgot to rate it.

[Andrew .]

When using this function, the tick labels overlap axis labels, so this function is only useful if xlabel or ylabel is not required

[Frank Hart]

I like this function's potential, but I'm not presently able to use it well. I'm working with x-axis limits that are multiples of pi, and I'd like to label the axis as such. It is unclear how to do this. Your example simply appends a pi. I'd like to specify the XTicks at pi-based intervals (possibly fractional), then use tick2text to place labels with pi in the tick marks.

For example, consider a uniform probability density function for a radian angle. It is distributed (x-axis) between [-pi,pi] and has a value of 1/(2*pi). I'd like to tick the x-axis at, say, pi/4 intervals, and the y-axis at 1/pi, 1/[2*pi], 1/[4*pi], etc. etc.

[Narasinha Parasnis]

 

[C Berry]

I'd like to use this to label the axes using the LaTeX interpreter, however it appears to be impossible to successfully parse a minus sign, which is rather annoying. Does anyone have any ideas?

[Kelly Kearney]

C Berry,

I'm not quite sure what you mean when you say it doesn't parse a minus sign; can you give a small example?

[Geoffrey]

Great program. Thank you. I particularly like the option to use sprintf formatting.

I would appreciate being able to adjust the offset in orthogonal planes. By this I mean being able to apply an x-offset to the y-labels or a z-offset to the x-labels.