Output to the graphics screen with the text command in Octave ....

[John W. Eaton]

On 21-Jun-2007, Jan M. Hollis wrote:

| Hi,
| 
| I find that to output to the graphics screen in Octave with the text
| command, I first have to use plot and plot something (see partial code
| below).  But then the screen has axes and axes labels on it.  The best
| I can do is use axis('off') to get rid of the labels, but then the
| screen is still left with the axes box.  Moreover, if I don't follow
| the text commands up with a final title command, none of the text
| commands print out.  Is there any way to get rid of the box?  Is there
| a better way to do this?
| 
| --------------------------------
| plot([ 0 1 ], [0 1 ], 'k.')
| axis('off')
| hold
| .
| .
| .
| text(-0.10, 0.85, 'Molecule Characteristics')  % etc
| .
| .
| 
| title(['Abundance Program '])

With Octave 2.9.12, a command like

  text(0.50, 0.85, 'Molecule Characteristics')

as the first command in an Octave session appears to work in a
Matlab-compatible way for me.

Negative values for the text coordinates doesn't seem to work, but
maybe that is a gnuplot limitation.

jwe