MATLAB Function Reference (Volume 2: Graphics)

Text PropertiesExtentposition rectangle (read only)Position and size of text. A four-element read-only vector that defines the sizeand position of the text string.[left,bottom,width,height]If the Units property is set to data (the default), left and bottom are the x andy coordinates of the lower-left corner of the text Extent rectangle.For all other values of Units, left and bottom are the distance from thelower-left corner of the axes position rectangle to the lower-left corner of thetext Extent rectangle. width and height are the dimensions of the Extentrectangle. All measurements are in units specified by the Units property.FontAngle{normal} | italic | obliqueCharacter slant. MATLAB uses this property to select a font from thoseavailable on your particular system. Generally, setting this property to italicor oblique selects a slanted font.FontNameA name such as Courier or the string FixedWidthFont family. A string specifying the name of the font to use for the text object.To display and print properly, this must be a font that your system supports.The default font is Helvetica.Specifying a Fixed-Width FontIf you want text to use a fixed-width font that looks good in any locale, youshould set FontName to the string FixedWidth:set(text_handle,'FontName','FixedWidth')This eliminates the need to hardcode the name of a fixed-width font, which maynot display text properly on systems that do not use ASCII character encoding(such as in Japan where multibyte character sets are used). A properly writtenMATLAB application that needs to use a fixed-width font should set FontNameto FixedWidth (note that this string is case sensitive) and rely onFixedWidthFontName to be set correctly in the end-user’s environment.End users can adapt a MATLAB application to different locales or personalenvironments by setting the root FixedWidthFontName property to theappropriate value for that locale from startup.m.2-513