labelEdgeSubPlots 1.0

function H=labelEdgeSubPlots(xl,yl,onlyBottom) Purpose If all subplots have the same quantities on the x and y axes then there's no point labeling all of them. Often it looks neater to simply have y labels only on the plots along the left hand edge and x labels only on the plots along the bottom. This function does this automatically for the current figure. Inputs xl - a string specifying what to label the x axes. yl - a string specifying what to label the y axes. onlyBottom - by default this is zero and the function adds an x-axis to appropriate plots from the penultimate row if the bottom row of plots is incomplete. set onlyBottom to 1 to suppress this behaviour. * in addition: onlyBottom can be a vector of axis handles to be processsed. Outputs H - a structure containing handles to the x and y axis labels Example clf for i=1:5 subplot(2,3,i) x=[0:10]; y=1+0.01*x.^3+randn(size(x))*0.2; plot(x,y,'ok'), xlabel('will be removed') end H=labelEdgeSubPlots('beer [pints]','faux pas'); %or: H=labelEdgeSubPlots('beer [pints]','faux pas',1); %One can also do: set(H.xlabels,'color','red','fontweight','bold') %proccess only some subplots ax=[]; for i=1:25 subplot(5,5,i), box on if mod(i,5)==1, ax=[gca,ax]; end end labelEdgeSubPlots('X','Y',ax); Rob Campbell - January 2009

Requirements:	No special requirements
Platforms:	Matlab
Keyword:	Addition,  Behaviour,  I3d15,  Outputs,  Structure,  Subplot,  Vector,  X3d010
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