LEGEND Add Legent to Plot
Section: Handle-Based Graphics
Usage
This command adds a legend to the current plot. Currently, the following forms of thelegend
command are supported. The
first form creates a legend with the given labels for the data
series:
legend('label1','label2',...)
where 'label1'
is the text label associated with data plot 1
and so on. You can also use the legend
command to control
the appearance of the legend in the current plot. To remove the
legend from the current plot, use
legend('off')
To hide the legend for the current plot (but do not remove it)
legend('hide')
And to show the legend that has been hidden, use
legend('show')
You can also toggle the display of the box surrounding the legend. Use
legend('boxoff')
or
legend('boxon')
to turn the legend box off or on, respectively. To toggle the visible state of the current legend, use
legend('toggle')
Specifying no arguments at all (apart from an optional location argument as specified below) results in the legend being rebuilt. This form is useful for picking up font changes or relocating the legend.
legend
By default, the legend
command places the new legend in the
upper right corner of the current plot. To change this behavior,
use the 'location'
specifier (must be the last two options to the command)
legend(...,'location',option)
where option
takes on the following possible values
-
north
,N
- top center of plot -
south
,S
- bottom center of plot -
east
,E
- middle right of plot -
west
,W
- middle left of plot -
northeast
,NE
- top right of plot (default behavior) -
northwest
,NW
- top left of plot -
southeast
,SE
- bottom right of plot -
southwest
,SW
- bottom left of plot
legend
is incomplete relative to the
MATLAB API. The functionality will be improved in future versions
of FreeMat.