Plot title disappears if ymax < 1

My plot titles are disappearing if ymax is less than 1, presumably because the " X 10^-2" bit ends up in the area where the title goes. It is not affected by the length (number of characters) of the plot title. I have only noticed this since I started shrinking my plots vertically from the default size so that three of them will fit on one page in a word document file.

The code for shrinking vertically:

    currentSize = get(gcf, 'Position');
    set(gcf, 'Position', [currentSize(1) currentSize(2) currentSize(3) 280])

My current workaround is to increase the plot window size, add the title, then reduce the plot size back:

    figurePosition = get (gcf, 'Position'); 
    set (gcf, 'Units', 'normalized', 'Position', [0,0,1,1]);

    % add plot titles etc here

    set (gcf, 'Units', 'pixels', 'Position', figurePosition);

This works for long plot titles, even if the text overlaps the " X 10^-2" bit.

I am using R2008b.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

If you set the axis ylabel property explicitly, then the power of 10 will not be printed.

curytick = get(gca, 'YTick');
set(gca, 'YLabel', cellstr(num2str(curytick(:))))

The (:) is important: the ticks are usually a row vector and they need to be a column vector for num2str() to produce the correct output format.

[Charles]

If I change 'YLabel' to 'yticklabel', this works to get rid of overlapping text due to the exponent. I still need to change the figure size when adding the plot title or the title disappears. So my theory on why this is happening is wrong.

In the opening post I should have said the title disappears for ymax < 0.01 - this is still the case.

That's a handy trick for forcing a column vector...

[Walter Roberson]

Yes, sorry, should have been YTickLabel