Re: default properties for axis label objects

[Ben Abbott]

On Oct 5, 2010, at 3:42 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> I was recently asked about setting the default value of the "rotation"
> property for y-axis labels to 0 instead of 90, so that all new plots
> would have the y-axis label oriented the same as the x-axis label.
> Currently, the y-axis label is always rotated 90 degrees
> counterclockwise.
> 
> It seems there is no way to do this for Octave because each time an
> axis object is created, new text objects are created for the x-, y-,
> and z-axis labels and with all the factory default settings and there
> is code in axes::properties::init in src/graphics.cc that explicitly sets the
> rotation property for the y-axis label to 90.  So I see no way to set
> defaults, at least in Octave.  Is there some way to accomplish this
> task in Matlab?  If so, how?
> 
> jwe

I don't know how to do that either.

I would have thought that DefaultAxisCreateFcn could be modified to do the job, 
but Matlab doesn't allow me to set the default createfcn for axis objects ... 
which leaves me wondering how that property is even useful.

Ben