Re: Unable to display multiline text

[Ben Abbott]

On Feb 22, 2012, at 9:32 AM, ahowe42 wrote:

> No go:
> 
> octave:339> demo("text",3)
> warning: only 2 demos available for text
> 
> If I just copy & paste the demo code from the web page, I get the same
> "text: dimension mismatch" error.
> 
> Andrew

Ok. This verifies that multiline text is not supported for your version of 
Octave.

As a work around you can try adding "\n" to your stings.

        plot ([0 1],[0 1])
        text (0.5, 0.5, "line 1\nline 2")

Ben