Putting figures within rectangles

I am trying to create a page for a journal aricle. The page will display four rectangles that each containing one of the letters A, B, C or D. Each rectangle contains four figures (shown in blue). Above each figure is positioned the letters a, b, c or d. This allows the reader to reference each figure by a big letter followed by a small letter. Is this possible in MATLAB?

Thanks

Tom

Answer 1

[Paul]

x=1:10;
y=1:10;

figure;

subplot(2,2,1)
plot(x,y);
t=title('a');   
subplot(2,2,2)
plot(x,y);
title('b');
subplot(2,2,3)
plot(x,y);
title('c');
subplot(2,2,4)
plot(x,y);
title('d');

If you want the titles aligned to the left instead of the center, use:

title('a','units', 'normalized','position',[0.05 1.05]);

Play with those position values to find what you need.

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

I'd probably make up each one one at a time and then position with MS Word or Photoshop of something for more control. You can do it with subplot but subplot seems to always have huge amounts of blank space around the plots. To plot the upper left group of 4 you'd use

subplot(4,4,1);
subplot(4,4,2);
subplot(4,4,5);
subplot(4,4,6);

Then to do the others

subplot(2,2,2); % Upper right.
subplot(2,2,3); % Lower left.
subplot(2,2,4); % Lower right.

After each subplot you'd call plot() or bar(), xlabel(), ylabel(), title(), legend() and whatever else you want.