Changing Plot and Label font

Hi all,

I have 3 simple questions,

1. Is it possible to change the font sizes of the numbers on a plot's axes? If so, how?

2. I make frequent use of the property editor to change the font size of my plot's labels, how can I code for this?

3. Is it possible to change the font style of labels on a plot (i.e bold italic ect.)?

Thank you, Nikolay

Answer 1

[Oleg Komarov]

Suppose you have the following example:

x = -pi:.1:pi;
y = sin(x);
plot(x,y)
lx = xlabel('x');
ly = xlabel('y');

1. Change FontSize

set(gca,'FontSize',14)

2. Yes. When creating labels, store their handles into some variables, then use set(). See also get() and the useful inspect().

3. Yes. To control string properties see this link http://www.mathworks.co.uk/help/techdoc/ref/text_props.html#String

set(lx,'string','\it x')