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#### 15.1.3 Plot Annotations

You can add titles, axis labels, legends, and arbitrary text to an existing plot. For example,

         x = -10:0.1:10;
         plot (x, sin (x));
         title ("sin(x) for x = -10:0.1:10");
         xlabel ("x");
         ylabel ("sin (x)");
         text (pi, 0.7, "arbitrary text");
         legend ("sin (x)");

The functions `grid` and `box` may also be used to add grid and border lines to the plot. By default, the grid is off and the border lines are on.

— Function File: title (title)

> Create a title object and return a handle to it.

— Function File: legend (st1, st2, ...)
— Function File: legend (st1, st2, ..., "location", pos)
— Function File: legend (matstr)
— Function File: legend (matstr, "location", pos)
— Function File: legend (cell)
— Function File: legend (cell, "location", pos)
— Function File: legend ('func')

> Display a legend for the current axes using the specified strings as labels. Legend entries may be specified as individual character string arguments, a character array, or a cell array of character strings. Legend works on line graphs, bar graphs, etc. A plot must exist before legend is called.

> The optional parameter pos specifies the location of the legend as follows:

> | north | center top
> | south | center bottom
> | east | right center
> | west | left center
> | northeast | right top (default)
> | northwest | left top
> | southeast | right bottom
> | southwest | left bottom
> | outside | can be appended to any location string

> Some specific functions are directly available using func:

> "show"
>   Show legends from the plot
> "hide"
> "off"
>   Hide legends from the plot
> "boxon"
>   Draw a box around legends
> "boxoff"
>   Withdraw the box around legends
> "left"
>   Text is to the left of the keys
> "right"
>   Text is to the right of the keys

— Function File: h = text (x, y, label)
— Function File: h = text (x, y, z, label)
— Function File: h = text (x, y, label, p1, v1, ...)
— Function File: h = text (x, y, z, label, p1, v1, ...)

> Create a text object with text label at position x, y, z on the current axes. Property-value pairs following label may be used to specify the appearance of the text.

— Function File: xlabel (string)
— Function File: ylabel (string)
— Function File: zlabel (string)
— Function File: xlabel (h, string)

> Specify x, y, and z axis labels for the current figure. If h is specified then label the axis defined by h.

> See also: plot, semilogx, semilogy, loglog, polar, mesh, contour, bar, stairs, ylabel, title.

— Function File: box (arg)
— Function File: box (h, ...)

> Control the display of a border around the plot. The argument may be either `"on"` or `"off"`. If it is omitted, the current box state is toggled.

> See also: grid.

— Function File: grid (arg)
— Function File: grid ("minor", arg2)

> Force the display of a grid on the plot. The argument may be either `"on"` or `"off"`. If it is omitted, the current grid state is toggled.

> If arg is `"minor"` then the minor grid is toggled. When using a minor grid a second argument arg2 is allowed, which can be either `"on"` or `"off"` to explicitly set the state of the minor grid.

> See also: plot.