Re: legend location 'outside' not working

[Ben Abbott]

On Sep 12, 2010, at 8:20 PM, Bob Lounsbury wrote:

> I've searched and searched and not found a clear answer, thought it would be 
> better to email the pro's.
> 
> Here's my issue ... In Octave 3.0.5:
> 
> > plot(0:10)
> > legend('linear','location','eastoutside')
> 
> works as expected with the legend to the outside of the plot.
> 
> However, in Octave 3.2.3 the same code produces a legend inside the plot not 
> outside. Has this been fixed in Octave 3.2.4? How do I get the legend to the 
> outside of the plot area?
> 
> Thanks,
> Bob

Version 3.2.3 moved closer to compatibility with Matlab. However, the behavior 
of the legend is an exception to that. The developers are currently working on 
this problem.

As a work around, you can modify the axis plotbox position by. For example ...

        x = 0:0.1:10;
        plot (x, sin (x), x, cos (x))
        set (gca, "position", get (0, "defaultaxesposition") + [0, 0, -1, 0] * 
0.05)
        xlabel ("Angle, radians")
        ylabel ("Amplitude")
        legend ({"sin(x)", "cos(x)"}, "location", "eastoutside")

Ben