SETAXES

creates handles of nested functions for fixing problems with MATLAB figures.

Description

This subsmission was inspired by the blog:
http://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2007/12/11/making-pretty-graphs/

% SETAXES with no output argument make automatic adjustments to the
% current axes position propery if parts of the axes is clipped from
% sides due to small figure size.
%
% SETAXES(AX) takes the axes with handle AX for the current axes.
%
% This first step works for common cases. For complete control over
% axes position and other features, use the advanced syntax below.
%
% FH = SETAXES(..) makes no automatic adjustments and returns a structure
% FH of 9 function handles for 2-D view and 3 function handles for 3-D view.
% A brief description of the purpose of each function is:
%
% Function Purpose of the nested function handle
% ----------------- ---------------------------------------------------
% 'FH.xoffset' To move and stretch the axes in horizontal direction
% 'FH.yoffset' To move and stretch the axes in vertical direction
% 'FH.legendmoveresize' To shrink and relocate the legend
%
%
% Function Purpose of the nested function handle
% (2D-view only)
% ----------------- ---------------------------------------------------
% 'FH.xtick2text' To replace XTickLabels by text objects
% 'FH.ytick2text' To replace YTickLabels by text objects
% 'FH.xlabelcorner' To place XLabel at the appropriate corner
% 'FH.ylabelcorner' To place YLabel at the appropriate corner
% 'FH.axesarrows' To add arrows to the axes lines
% 'FH.d1annotation' To facilitate 1D annotation objects in data space units
% 'FH.d2annotation' To facilitate 2D annotation objects in data space units
%=======================================================================
%Detail for each function and a comprehensive EXAMPLE is included in help.
%-----------------------------------------------------------------------

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.5 (R2007b)

[Christopher Barrington-Leigh]

Wow, this is a labour of love and is nearly magical for me. For months I have been struggling with the infuriating difficulty of exporting small figures with LaTeX-rendered xlabels.
The automatic mode of your code improves the situation for me. I need to use the detailed version to get it right, and that means fiddling around by hand for each plot. Being reduced to that again is of course, a great shame and a significant failure for Matlab, but at least I know how now. To Mukhtar (and the blog which inspired him) -- THANK YOU!!!

[tom mezger]

cool. this is one of the best files i have ever found.