Hi Matlab fans,
I've got a problem with the size and position of my legends.
I find that the text that appears in them is frequently too large for the legend box, and spills outside of it (possibly because I favour Times New Roman font). The simple solution is to manually edit the position information of the legend handle to something more appropriate (usually by trial-and-error viewing of the result). This is fine for a one-off (e.g. a figure for publication), but I've been trying to come up with an automated way of doing this.
lg = legend ('Blah', 'Blah', 'Blah', 1);
lgpos = get(lg, 'Position');
lgpos(3) = lgpos(3) + 0.1;
set(lg, 'Position', lgpos);
However, when I edit the position information in this way, the legend's location information is deleted (i.e. set to 'none'), and though I patently use the same position information when I resize the legend box, the resulting legend is usually in a new location offset from where it was originally placed by Matlab. Amending things to something like ...
lg = legend ('Blah', 'Blah', 'Blah', 1);
lgloc = get(lg, 'Location');
lgpos = get(lg, 'Position');
lgpos(3) = lgpos(3) + 0.1;
set(lg, 'Position', lgpos);
set(lg, 'Location', lgloc);
... doesn't help either and the position information now appears overwritten (i.e. my text now spills out of the legend box again).
Does anyone have an automated solution that will allow me to both stretch my legend box to accommodate my text, while keeping the box positioned where I originally asked it to be?
Cheers,
Andrew.
P.S. I'm aware of the 'OuterPosition' information of the legend (and, in fact, now edit it in my auto-corrector script), but it seems to have no bearing on the problem here.
