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Cecilia
Cecilia

Reputation: 4721

How to wrap strings when plotting with `text`?

I have a long string that I would like to add to a subplot as descriptive text. 

description = 'This kitchen has white cabinets and two blue chairs. The upper cabinet has a black microwave. The paper towels are above the trash can. There is a black garbage can just on the left of the blue chair. On its left there is a red fire distinguisher.';

I have tried to add new line characters after every sentence to make it fit better.

subplot(1,2,2);
with_new_lines = regexprep(description, '\.', '\.\n');
text( 0.5, 0.5, with_new_lines, 'FontSize', 14', 'FontWeight', 'Bold', ...
    'HorizontalAlignment', 'Center', 'VerticalAlignment', 'middle' ) ;

But it still does not fit properly within the axis.

Is there a way to wrap the string dynamically to fit the subplot?

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Upvotes: 4

Views: 1068

Answers (2)

gnovice
gnovice

Reputation: 125854

You could use the textwrap function in one of two ways:

  1. Wrap the text to fit within a text uicontrol:

    hText = uicontrol('Style', 'Text', 'Position', ...(some starting position)... );
[wrappedText, newPosition] = textwrap(hText, {description});
set(hText, 'String', wrappedText, 'Position', newPosition);

  2. Wrap the text at a fixed number of columns before plotting with text:

    wrappedText = textwrap({description}, 20);
text(0.5, 0.5, wrappedText, 'FontSize', 14', 'FontWeight', 'Bold', ...
     'HorizontalAlignment', 'center', 'VerticalAlignment', 'middle');

Upvotes: 2

user5128199
user5128199

Reputation:

How about using an annotate box, with the FitBoxToText property off?

description = 'This kitchen has white cabinets and two blue chairs. The upper cabinet has a black microwave. The paper towels are above the trash can. There is a black garbage can just on the left of the blue chair. On its left there is a red fire distinguisher.';
figure;subH=subplot(1,2,2);
pos=get(subH,'Position');
annotation('textbox', pos,...
  'String', description,...
  'FitBoxToText','off');

You can change the location by changing the 1st two elements of pos ,which (I think) describe the left-bottom corner, but forget.

Upvotes: 3

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