MATLAB: Is this distance variable

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Dear Community,

in the picture you can see a distance. Is it possible to enlarge this distance, so that the graphic looks better?

Thanks for help and have a nice evening, Christian

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Yes and no.

The YLabel property of the axes is a handle to a text object, and you can set the Position property of that to move it around, but that can get a bit messy if the axes changes because you're both trying to control the same position.

The traditional trick here is to add an extra line to increase the gap:

ylabel({'My Label';' '})

You can fine-tune that by using tex interpreter (or latex) commands:

ylabel({'My Label';'\fontsize{24} '})

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Idea 1: put all shared name-value properties into a cell array

For sets of name-value pairs that will be assigned to several objects, you can group them into 1 variable and assign them like this.

extraInputs = {'interpreter','latex','fontsize',14}; % name, value pairs
xlabel('$k$',extraInputs{:})
ylabel('$h_1$',extraInputs{:})
legend({'closed loop','setpoint'},extraInputs{:})

Idea 2: set the axis properties when possible

Axes do not have an interpreter property but you could avoid assigning font size (and other properties) to each axis label and legend by assigning those properties to the axes.

set(gca,'fontsize',14)
xlabel('$k$','interpreter','latex')
ylabel('$h_1$','interpreter','latex')
legend({'closed loop','setpoint'},'interpreter','latex')

Idea 3: create a local function designed to produce formatted axes and labels

Lastly, if you're creating a bunch of subplots that all have the same set of properties, create a local function that creates subplots and assigns the formatted axis labels.

figure('DefaultAxesFontSize',14)
clf
ax = newsubplot(221,'k','h_1'); 
plot(1:5,'LineWidth',2)
line([0,1], [1,2],'color','red','linestyle','--','LineWidth',2)
legend({'closed loop','setpoint'},'interpreter','latex')
function ax = newsubplot(position, xlab, ylab)
    % Creates new subplot in specified position on current figure
    % with xlab xlabel and ylab ylabel
    ax = subplot(position); 
    hold on
    set(ax,'FontSize',14) %and other properties
    xlabel(['$',xlab,'$'],'interpreter','latex')
    ylabel(['$',ylab,'$'],'interpreter','latex')
    grid on
end

MATLAB: The default interpreter for the ‘title’ command is ‘tex’. How can the default be changed to ‘latex’

ax = gca;
ax.Title.String = '';
ax.Title.Interpreter = 'latex';
set(groot,'DefaultAxesTitle', ax.Title);

This is a complete title() object that gets set.

Each time you create a new axes, it will set the axes Title object to the object that was created. This will set the Parent of the Title object to be the appropriate axes, which will stop it from displaying where it was and start displaying it in the new axes. Any change in the new axes (such as to the string) will affect the properties for all of the other axes it is set to, because all of those axes will have handles to the same Title object. delete() of any one of the references will delete it for all of the references.

You will probably find this highly unsatisfactory... but you asked ;-)

There does not appear to be any way to set just the Interpreter property by the groot/default mechanism. This is unfortunate.

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