在撰写科技论文时,不可避免的要使用图片显示试验结果。excel固然可以用来画图,但是excel画出来的图片不够精美,漂亮。Matlab是一个很强大的工具(我对其他功能知之甚少),可以画出很精美的图片,并且可以直接存储为.eps格式,方便在LaTex中调用。
我在使用Matlab是遇到了一个问题,就是由于xticklabel的字符串过长,导致多个ticklabel重叠。
首先,为初学者解释一下什么是ticklabel?什么是label?
一般情况下,label是可以通过属性设置其旋转的,但是,这并不是我们要旋转的东西,我们想旋转的是ticklabel,而ticklabel在axis属性对话框中通过设置style只能设置FontSize和FontWeight等属性,并不能旋转。
我通过一个函数实现ticklabel的旋转
function th=rotateticklabel(h,rot,demo)
%ROTATETICKLABEL rotates tick
labels
% TH=ROTATETICKLABEL(H,ROT) ris the calling form where H is a handle
to
% the axis that contains the XTickLabels that are to be rotated. ROT
is
% an optional parameter that specifies the angle of rotation. The
default
% angle is 90. TH is a handle to the text objects created. For
long
% strings such as those produced by datetick, you may have to adjust
the
% position of the axes so the labels don't get cut off.
%
% Of
course, GCA can be substituted for H if desired.
%
%
TH=ROTATETICKLABEL([],[],'demo') shows a demo figure.
%
% Known
deficiencies: if tick labels are raised to a power, the power
% will be
lost after rotation.
%
% See also datetick.
% Written Oct 14, 2005 by Andy Bliss
% Copyright 2005 by Andy
Bliss
%DEMO:
if nargin==3
x=[now-.7 now-.3 now];
y=[20 35 15];
figure
plot(x,y,'.-')
datetick('x',0,'keepticks')
h=gca;
set(h,'position',[0.13 0.35 0.775 0.55])
rot=90;
end
%set the default rotation if user doesn't specify
if nargin==1
rot=90;
end
%make sure the rotation is in the range 0:360 (brute force
method)
% while rot>360
% rot=rot-360;
% end
% while
rot<0
% rot=rot+360;
% end
%get current tick
labels
a=get(h,'XTickLabel');
%erase current tick labels from
figure
set(h,'XTickLabel',[]);
%get tick label
positions
b=get(h,'XTick');
c=get(h,'YTick');
%make new tick
labels
if rot<180
th=text(b,repmat(c(1)-.1*(c(2)-c(1)),length(b),1),a,'HorizontalAlignment','right','fontsize',14,'fontweight','bold','rotation',rot);
else
th=text(b,repmat(c(1)-.1*(c(2)-c(1)),length(b),1),a,'HorizontalAlignment','left','fontsize',14,'fontweight','bold','rotation',rot);
end
如何使用这个函数呢?
x =
round(rand(5,3)*10);
h=bar(x,1,'group');
set(gca,'xticklabels',{'benchmark1','benchmark2','benchmark3','benchmark4','benchmark5'});
h
= gca;
th=rotateticklabel(h, 45);
效果