How do I insert a caption below a figure in Matlab?

I would like to add short captions below my figures, so that the captions are part of the same file. Is there a way to do this in Matlab?

Answer 1

[Fangjun Jiang]

Use text() or annotation() function. Or maybe you mean xlabel()

[Jan]

+1.

[Rhythm Analyst]

text() and annotation() only seem to be capable of inserting inside a graph, or off to the left/right. Is there a way to put text below the xlabel of the x-axis?

for example:

notice the text "Fig. 3 ..." below the graph. This is what I am trying to achieve in MatLab. Is there a way to do this? Thank you.

[Image Analyst]

You'll have to build a GUI for that. Have an axes, then below it place a static text label. Use sprintf() to build up the string.

Answer 2

[Michael Leung]

annotation('textbox',[x y w h])

http://www.mathworks.com/help/techdoc/ref/annotation.html

Answer 3

[Image Analyst]

xlabel('This is my caption');

[emjey]

How is this a figure caption?

[Image Analyst]

@emjey It's not. It's a caption below the bottom edge of the axes box, so it's like an caption for the x-axis. But when @Susan said she wanted "short captions below my figures" I figured that an x-axis caption was what she wanted. In MATLAB the whole window is called the "figure" and images/graphs are in "axes" controls. So you see that there cannot really be anything outside the figure since that would be outside of any window that MATLAB creates, in essence it might be over the desktop or some other application that MATLAB has no control over. So the only way is to put anything and everything inside a "figure", not below it. So that's why we all figured she really meant "axes" instead of "figure".