Set one common Xaxis for a sublot with rows = 1 and columns = 2

Hello all,

I am having difficulties setting one shared\common Xaxis label for subplot with one row and two columns [e.g., subplot(1,2,1)].

Although there are a few realted answers in the forum, none seems to work for me.

I would appreciate your help!

Thanks, Ron

[dpb]

'Splain what you're after more fully -- neither subplot nor tiledlayout support sharing axes although the latter has shared title/legends. One would have to overlay the area with additional axes or draw a small-height one to add additional.

Show what you tried and what didn't please...there may be submissions on FEX but I've not looked.

Answer 1

[dpb]

I overlooked the labels in the original Q? body and thought was to have a combination axis itself of some sort based on title -- hence the response asking for clarification.

For the actual Q? as @the cyclist mentions above, use tiledlayout instead of subplot() which has been deprecated and won't be updated further it would appear.

From the doc examples for tiledlayout --

?Display a shared title and axis labels by passing t to the title, xlabel, and ylabel functions."

t = tiledlayout(2,2,'TileSpacing','Compact');
...
title(t,'Size vs. Distance')
xlabel(t,'Distance (mm)')
ylabel(t,'Size (mm)'    

[Ron Nativ]

Thanks! I find the code working utilizing tiledlayout(1,2,...), as follows (e.g.,):

t = tiledlayout(1,2,'TileSpacing','Compact');

nexttile

plot(1:10,1:10)

nexttile

plot(1:10,10:19)

title(t,'Size vs. Distance')

xlabel(t,'Distance (mm)')

ylabel(t,'Size (mm)')

Ron

Answer 2

[the cyclist]

You may find the linkaxes command useful. You can also share properties (e.g. titles, xlabels) in a tiledlayout.

[Ron Nativ]

Thanks!