Re: Customizing legends

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 7:19 AM, Reza Housseini <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 6:16 AM, JaWiB <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Thanks guys. I went with something like Torsten's solution:
>> octave:62> plotColors = colormap;
>> octave:63> plot(temps(:,1),caps(:,1),";Capacitance;")
>> octave:64> hold on
>> octave:65> plot(temps(:,1),cons(:,1),"--;Conductance;")
>> octave:66> for i=2:size(temps,2)
>>> plotColorsI = round( size(plotColors,1)*i/size(temps,2));
>>> h1 = plot(temps(:,i),caps(:,i));
>>> h2 = plot(temps(:,i),cons(:,i),"--");
>>> set(h1,'Color',plotColors(plotColorsI,:));
>>> set(h2,'Color',plotColors(plotColorsI,:));
>>> endfor
>>
>> A bit more effort than I'd hoped, but still not bad. If I really care to
>> change the legend to black, I guess I could plot an additional data series
>> that won't show up (maybe a single data point or just manually set the axes
>> so it's off the screen?)
>>
>>
>>
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> Hello JaWIB
>
> Another possibility is to print your plot with matlab2tikz
> https://github.com/nschloe/matlab2tikz an m script which generates a
> tikz/pgf data file which can be easily changed according to your
> wishes with the rich features of pgfplots
> http://pgfplots.sourceforge.net/. Like this you don't have to fiddle
> with the plot internals and can use instead the clean API of pgfplots.
>
> Best wishes
> Reza
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Yet another option is to export your plot in SVG format and edit it at
your will with Inkscape.

The latest options given are not so good if you need to automatize the
creation process. However in my experience, I do rather quick plots
until the document I need to create is in finla draft form. At that
point I spend some time making the final figures beautiful with
Inkscape.

Cheers,

JPi