Aligning or justifying multiple text on same title line
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Hi all,
I'm looking for a little help on a seemingly simple problem. I have a multiline title similar to this on a plot:
t = title({['\fontsize{14}','First Line Title']; ...
['\fontsize{12}','Second Line Title 1', ...
'Second Line Title 2','Second Line Title 3']}, ...
'FontWeight','Normal')
On the second line I have three pieces of text (Second Line Title 1-3). I'm exporting multiple plots, but the text changes for each plot I make. I'm wanting the alignment (justification) of each piece of text on the second line to remain constant regardless of number of characters so that there isn't a big swing in the justification of each piece of text. Hopefully this makes sense.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to do this in MATLAB? Any thoughts or advice would be greatly appreciated!
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Jan
on 26 Mar 2017
The question is not clear: Currently the 2nd line is the big string:
'Second Line Title 1Second Line Title 2Second Line Title 3'
What should exactly appear where and what is a "big swing"?
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the cyclist
on 26 Mar 2017
Edited: the cyclist
on 26 Mar 2017
I don't know how to easily do the justification off the top of my head.
Note that the text object t has some properties that look promising, such as 'HorizontalAlignment' and 'Position'. You could try manipulating those. I thought the first one would do it, but I could not easily get it to work with your multi-line title.
A rather unsatisfying solution would be to pad the right-hand side of your string with space characters, such that your total character count is always equal. Maybe if someone doesn't offer a better solution, you could do that.
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