It doesn’t appear to be possible to turn the tails off, since there doesn’t appear to be any specific ‘tail-length’ property, and the available properties interact.
The best you can probably hope for is something like this —
x = randn(1,10)
x =
-0.3439 2.5879 -0.0453 0.7373 0.1921 -1.9661 -1.3703 -1.6124 -1.7509 0.4401
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y = randn(1,10)
y =
-0.3366 -0.9526 0.2545 -0.5438 -1.4376 0.4723 0.4253 -0.7628 -0.7856 0.6550
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text(x, y, compose('a = %.3f',a))
plot(x, y, '.r', 'MarkerSize',0.1)
text(x(k), y(k), 'v', 'Vert','middle', 'Horiz','center', 'Rotation',a(k)-270)
EDIT — Minor code correction.
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