text
creates text descriptions to data points.
πŸ“Syntax
text(x, y, txt)
text(x, y, z, txt)
text(... , propertyName, propertyValue)
text(propertyName, propertyValue)
text(ax, ...)
go = text(...)
πŸ“₯Input Arguments
Parameter Description
x x-coordinates: vector or matrix.
y y-coordinates: vector or matrix.
z z-coordinates: vector or matrix.
parent a scalar graphics object value: parent container, specified as a axes.
text Text to display: character vector, string scalar, string array or cell array.
propertyName a scalar string or row vector character.
propertyValue a value.
πŸ“€Output Arguments
Parameter Description
go a graphics object: text type.
πŸ“„Description

figure creates figure.

See text properties for the complete property list.

The Interpreter property selects how the String is parsed: 'tex' (default) renders a subset of TeX markup (the special characters below, plus ^{ } superscripts and _{ } subscripts); 'none' draws the text verbatim.

The 'latex' value is accepted, but a full LaTeX math layout engine (\frac, \sqrt, \int with limits, matrices, and so on) is not yet implemented. It falls back to the 'tex' pipeline after removing a surrounding pair of $...$ math delimiters, so known symbols and super/subscripts are rendered while unsupported constructs appear as their source text. A full LaTeX interpreter is planned for a future release.

lists of the supported special characters for the 'tex' interpreter:

Superscript: ^{ } 'text^{superscript}'

Subscript: _{ } 'text_{subscript}'

Character Sequence Symbol
\alpha Ξ±
\upsilon Ο…
\sim ~
\angle ∠
\phi Ο•
\leq ≀
\ast *
\chi Ο‡
\infty ∞
\beta Ξ²
\psi ψ
\clubsuit ♣
\gamma Ξ³
\omega Ο‰
\diamondsuit ♦
\delta Ξ΄
\Gamma Ξ“
\heartsuit β™₯
\epsilon Ο΅
\Delta Ξ”
\spadesuit β™ 
\zeta ΞΆ
\Theta Θ
\leftrightarrow ↔
\eta Ξ·
\Lambda Ξ›
\leftarrow ←
\theta ΞΈ
\Xi Ξ
\Leftarrow ⇐
\vartheta Ο‘
\Pi Ξ 
\uparrow ↑
\iota ΞΉ
\Sigma Ξ£
\rightarrow ->
\kappa ΞΊ
\Upsilon Ο’
\Rightarrow β‡’
\lambda Ξ»
\Phi Ξ¦
\downarrow ↓
\mu Β΅
\Psi Ξ¨
\circ ΒΊ
\nu Ξ½
\Omega Ξ©
\pm Β±
\xi ΞΎ
\forall βˆ€
\geq β‰₯
\pi Ο€
\exists βˆƒ
\propto ∝
\rho ρ
\ni ∍
\partial βˆ‚
\sigma Οƒ
\cong β‰…
\bullet β€’
\varsigma Ο‚
\approx β‰ˆ
\div Γ·
\tau Ο„
\Re β„œ
\neq β‰ 
\equiv ≑
\oplus βŠ•
\aleph β„΅
\Im β„‘
\cup βˆͺ
\wp β„˜
\otimes βŠ—
\subseteq βŠ†
\oslash βˆ…
\cap ∩
\in ∈
\supseteq βŠ‡
\supset βŠƒ
\lceil ⌈
\subset βŠ‚
\int ∫
\cdot Β·
\o ΞΏ
\rfloor βŒ‹
\neg Β¬
\nabla βˆ‡
\lfloor ⌊
\times x
\ldots ...
\perp βŠ₯
\surd √
\prime Β΄
\wedge ∧
\varpi Ο–
\0 βˆ…
\rceil βŒ‰
\rangle 〉
\mid |
\vee ∨
\langle γ€ˆ
\copyright Β©
πŸ’‘Examples
f = figure(1)
t = text(0.5, 0.5, 'text here');
s = t.FontSize;
t.FontSize = 12;
t.Color = 'red';
Example illustration 
figure();
ha = {'left', 'center', 'right'};
va = {'bottom', 'middle', 'top'};
color = {'red', 'green', 'blue'};
x = [0.25 0.5 0.75];
y = x;
for t = 0:45:359;
  for nh = 1:numel (ha)
    for nv = 1:numel (va)
      text (x(nh), y(nv), 'Nelson', ...
      'Rotation', t, ...
      'HorizontalAlignment', ha{nh}, ...
      'VerticalAlignment', va{nv}, ...
      'Color', color{nv});
    end
  end
end
axis([0 1 0 1]);
title ('Text alignment and rotation (0:45:360 degrees)');
xlabel('Horizontal alignment');
ylabel ('Vertical alignment');
Example illustration 
figure();
h1 = text(0.5, 0.5, 'Nelson \copyright')
h1.String
% Nelson is full unicode, so
h2 = text(0.5, 0.3, 'OR Nelson Β©')
h2.String
πŸ”—See Also
text propertiestitle
πŸ•”Version History
Version Description
1.0.0 initial version
1.7.0 CreateFcn, DeleteFcn callback added.
-- BeingDeleted property added.
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