How to add Line/Markers to an Axis Label?
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It is fairly common to add an example of either the line style or marker style to the Y-axis label of a plot when plotting multiple datasets to make the plot easier to understand. See attached examples. Is this possible to do in matlab?
I do not want to use a legend. Surprisingly I haven't been able to find any solutions on this.
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dpb
on 25 Jan 2023
Edited: dpb
on 26 Jan 2023
Well, there are lots of little holes in handle graphics and annotation objects that weren't thought of in the beginning...annotation can draw line, but it is a different kind of line object than the one for plot; it has 'linestyle', but no 'marker' property. And, even if did, there's no facility to join disparate annotations types into a single coherent piece.
No hatching patterns, ...
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Walter Roberson
on 25 Jan 2023
Edited: Walter Roberson
on 25 Jan 2023
L = "G\prime ( \bullet ) and G\prime\prime ( \color{red}{\bullet}\color{black} ) (Pa)";
ylabel(L, 'interpreter', 'tex')
See also https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/502442-matlab-colors-required-in-latex#comment_791006 where Adam showed how to specify color by RGB
Note that \color is a mode; the color continues until it is switched off. Also note that I used tex interpreter for this. And \bullet .
To extract the marker shape from a line and map it to tex to draw a similar shape would be more work; I do not know if it is generally possible for all of the markers, given the limitations of MATLAB's TeX and LaTeX
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Walter Roberson
on 26 Jan 2023
I wonder whether some of the options described in https://linuxhint.com/latex-horizontal-line/ could be used ?
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