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Re: Increasing font size of legend


From: asha g
Subject: Re: Increasing font size of legend
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 10:01:12 +0530 (IST)

> I think the line should look like:
> 
> legend('Airy(x)',"location",'southeast');
> 
> where you should substitute whatever you have for "leg" for
> Airy(x), i.e. leg
> is the text of your legend.

Anyway it does not  work with that either. 
> 
> Do: 'help legend' at the octave prompt.
> 
> I have also noticed in the forum that there are problems
> controlling the
> legend font size, which may have been solved in the
> developer sources, but
> not in the stable releases (3.2.4).
> 
> If all you need is a text label of some kind without the
> line type or
> color, you can use the 'text' function. For example, I have
> the two lines:
> 
> set (0,"Defaulttextfontsize", '26');
> text (1600, 1.5, "5 layers",'color', b);
> 
> My x-range is 1500 -> 1700, and y-range is 0 -> 10.
> The 'text' call above
> puts the message (5 layers) in the figure starting at the
> location
> (1600,1.5) in blue and with a font size of 26 points.

I only want the text in the legend to change. I have already got the x,y axes 
to work. So how do I modify the above line to indicate just that. What do you 
mean by 5 layers ? 
> 
> There is a lot of information on setting plot parameters in
> the forum
> archives. It is worth a look.
> 
 How does one access this ? Pardon my ignorance.

Thanks
Asha 




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