MATLAB: Varying Font Size Within individual words

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I need to produce the symbol "FA/FI" on the y-axis label with the "A" and the "I" in a font 3 sizes smaller than each "F". I do not want to use subscripts. In Microsoft Word, one achieves this by clicking on an icon on the toolbox. How does one do it in Matlab?

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Amazing how the same or similar queries seem to come in bunches...

hAx=gca;
hAx.XTickLabel(3)={'\color{red}\fontsize{8}\bf 3'};

did one tick value for the OP there. Just string together the two pieces you need. Write a simple function to produce the desired string passed the text and sizes if doing it for more than just one or two specific cases.

fmt='\\fontsize{%d} %s';           % format string for piece
>> [sprintf(fmt,8,'F',5,'A') '/' sprintf(fmt,8,'F',5,'I')]
ans =
    '\fontsize{8} F\fontsize{5} A/\fontsize{8} F\fontsize{5} I'
>>

or, more directly to use passed string, size--

fnLbl=@(FS,S) {[sprintf(fmt,FS,S(1)) sprintf(fmt,FS-3,S(2)) sprintf(fmt,FS,'/') sprintf(fmt,FS,S(3)) sprintf(fmt,FS-3,S(4))]};
>> lbl=fnLbl(8,'FAFI')
lbl =
  1×1 cell array
    {'\fontsize{8} F\fontsize{5} A\fontsize{8} /\fontsize{8} F\fontsize{5} I'}
>> hAx.XTickLabel(4)=lbl;

produced the desired string. More logic in a function could make it somewhat simpler.

But, MATLAB handle graphics aren't a word processor and there's no fancy GUI to mung on stuff inside the tick labels array. Guess one could write one.

NB: Above w/ default 'TeX' interpreter as per the link...

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MATLAB: How to create a multi-line tick label for a figure using MATLAB 7.10 (R2010a)

There is no function that will allow you to create a tick label consisting of multiple lines.

As a workaround, you can replace the tick labels with text objects which can contain multiple lines of text. For example:

%%Create figure and remove ticklabels
plot(1:10);
set(gca,'yticklabel',[], 'xticklabel', []) %Remove tick labels
%%Get tick positions
yTicks = get(gca,'ytick');
xTicks = get(gca, 'xtick');
%%Reset the YTicklabels onto multiple lines, 2nd line being twice of first
minX = min(xTicks);
% You will have to adjust the offset based on the size of figure

VerticalOffset = 0.1;
HorizontalOffset = 0.6;
for yy = 1:length(yTicks)
% Create a text box at every Tick label position

% String is specified as LaTeX string and other appropriate properties are set

text(minX - HorizontalOffset, yTicks(yy) - VerticalOffset, ['$$\begin{array}{c}',num2str( yTicks(yy)),'\\',num2str( 2*yTicks(yy)),'\end{array}$$'], 'Interpreter', 'latex')
% {c} specifies that the elements of the different lines will be center

% aligned. It may be replaced by {l} or {r} for left or right alignment

end
%%Reset the XTicklabels onto multiple lines, 2nd line being twice of first
minY = min(yTicks);
% You will have to adjust the offset based on the size of figure
VerticalOffset = 0.6;
HorizontalOffset = 0.2;
for xx = 1:length(xTicks)
% Create a text box at every Tick label position
% String is specified as LaTeX string and other appropriate properties are set
text(xTicks(xx) - HorizontalOffset, minY - VerticalOffset, ['$$\begin{array}{c}',num2str( xTicks(xx)),'\\',num2str( 2*xTicks(xx)),'\end{array}$$'], 'Interpreter', 'latex')
% {c} specifies that the elements of the different lines will be center
% aligned. It may be replaced by {l} or {r} for left or right alignment
end

MATLAB: Sprintf inputs

sprintf('%.*f',n,s,n,beta(1,1))

Notice that the field width is replaced each time the format string is passed through, with it being passed through multiple times if there are more items to output than there are format specifiers.

Alternately,

fmt = sprintf('%%.%df', n);
sprintf(fmt, s, beta(1,1));

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