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From: "Mark Proulx" <mark.p.proulx@boeing.com>
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Subject: Re: How to set font size in axis tick labels?
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:22:02 +0000 (UTC)
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"Matt Fig" <spamanon@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
<g8kscp$rvb$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> The handles for the axis labels are stored in the 'xlabel'
> property of the axes.
> 
> plot([1:10])
> xlhand = get(gca,'xlabel')
> set(xlhand,'string','X','fontsize',20)
> 
> 

Many thanks for the answer.  While Walt's answer got me out 
of my immediate difficulty, your answer gives me 
information that will be useful in the long term!

Mark