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Add custom legend without any relation to the graph
I wish to insert a legend that is not related to the graph whatsoever:
figure;
hold on;
plot(0,0,'or');
plot(0,0,'ob');
plot(0,0,'ok');
leg = legend('red','blue','black');
Now I wish to add it to ...
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How to have a common legend for subplots?
I am trying to create a figure of subplots. I don't want the subplots to have legends but instead the figure to have an overall legend.
I read that it is possible either by adding a legend only to ...
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How do I add two legends to a single plot in MATLAB?
I'd like to add two legends to a plot in MATLAB. How can I do this?
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Why is Matlab placing text spaces in legend using Latex when the figure gets saved as a PDF?
I am trying to put a legend in Matlab figures that include a symbol in Latex. When I plot the figure, the legend looks fine. However, when I export the figure as a PDF, the legend gets spaces put into ...
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Dynamic Legend (Updates in every recursion)
I got a for i=1:15. Inside I generate a variable d=1:0.01:10, which is the x'x axis and based on this, I create a continuous function F(d) which has 2 unique variables pitch and yaw. I then plot this ...
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Setting a title for a legend in Matlab
The following code is the most Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example that I could find. My true case is much more complicated:
x = 1:0.1:10;
y = sin(x);
subplot 211
plot(x,y)
[leg,att] = legend('...
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Fix position of legend in MATLAB
How do I fix the position of a legend in a MATLAB figure?
I'm currently building a GUI, intended for public use, and when figures inside the GUI are produced I do not want the user to be able to move ...
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Legend; text/description before key/colour?
By default MATLAB puts the text part of a legend entry after the sample of what is used in the plot. Is there any way to reverse this? For example, using the below code the first entry in the legend ...
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Matlab; Pie chart with 2+ / split legends R2017b
I'm creating a pie chart and ideally want the legend to be displayed horizontally at the top and/or bottom. However, in almost all cases this isn't possible as the legend go off the figure. Therefore, ...
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Make squared in legend instead of lines Matlab
I have the following code, which plots a 'map' using imagesc, and provides a legend, see output attached.
I am trying to replace the lines in the legend with solid squares. My attamps to far leave ...
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Matlab: subplot with sublegend
I want to add a legend at the bottom of a subplot (2 by 2):
As you can see the charts in the 2nd row are squeezed a little bit because I manually adjusted it.
Is there a function like sublegend(...) ...
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Matlab: change order of entries in Figure legend
I have a Figure file where I would like to change the order of the entries (e.g., put the first entry as third one). I saved this Figure.fig long time ago so I am not sure if I can recover the ...
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How to change display format of legend in MATLAB
I am looking for a way to force the legend entries in a particular format. I following code, they are displayed like
Instead I want it like 1e-1,1e-2,1e-3,1e-4, 1e-5.
Is there a way to do this.
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Matlab: Reduce the spacing between symbols and labels in the legend
When using the legend command in matlab, how can I reduce the horizontal distance between the legend symbols and their corresponding labels?
Example code:
Line1=plot(x1,y1,'s');
Line2=plot(x2,y2,'o'...
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How to decrease the size of the legend in a figure?
The following code plots a figure. The code should work on Matlab >= R2014b. I want to remove the space within the legend. How to do this?
x = 0:0.5:10;
figure; hold on;
plot(x,sin(x), 'Marker', 'o');...
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