Re: Fontsize of legend in a plot?

[Math4Fun]

You can change the font size in the legend using

a=legend('{\fontsize{14} one}','two','three','four')

However, if you make the font too big it won't automatically change the
spacing in the y-direction.


Matthias Brennwald (bwm) wrote:
> 
> Dear all
> 
> Is it possible to set the font size used for the legend in a plot? In
> Matlab, one would do the following (see
> http://www.mathworks.com/support/solutions/data/1-16U2V.html?solution=1-16U2V):
> 
>       plot(rand(4))
>       h_legend=legend('One','Two','Three','Four');
>       set(h_legend,'FontSize',14);
> 
> In Octave, however, the legend command does not return a handle to the
> text object (or anyting else, for that matter). I have Octave 3.0.0 on
> Ubuntu Hardy 8.04. I use the standard gnuplot backend for plotting.
> 
> Any suggestions are ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> Matthias
> 
> 
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