In case you haven’t found this page in the documentation:

http://www.mathworks.com/help/techdoc/creating_plots/f7-21465.html

You can set default properties for pretty much everything regarding graphics (except for plot objects which are high-level objects). As you can see from the documentation, the default properties start with the word “Default” followed by the object type, followed by the object property. You can get the list of properties for various graphics objects here.

set(0, ‘DefaultFigurePaperPositionMode’, ‘auto’);

But on a related note, where can I find a list of these default properties (especially graph related ones) that can be set in the startup.m file?

Thanks
H

Also, I would suggest searching and asking the question on MATLAB Answers.

There isn’t a straightforward way of assigning different colors to different tick labels.

As a workaround, if you search on File Exchange for “tick labels“, you’ll find a number of entries that do some sort of customization on tick labels. You may be able to get some ideas from those entries. The idea would be to create individual text objects that are placed in the appropriate locations.

Thank you for all the helpful information.

I am currently trying to produce a nice looking plot for publication and I have run into something I don’t know how to do.

I have a set of strings as the tick labels along one of my axes and I would love to be able to assign different colors to different tick labels. Is that possible?

Thank you very much in advance.

Gr.
Bert.

ERRORBARs are created using line objects, so all the lines will show up with the marker that you specified. As you can see from this post example, you can return a handle from the ERRORBAR function, and use that to change the line properties. Note that you need to get the children of the handle to get the actual line handles:

set(0,'defaultLineMarker', 'o')
X = 0:pi/10:pi;
Y = sin(X);
E = std(Y)*ones(size(X));
h = errorbar(X,Y,E);
h2 = get(h, 'Children');

% Second handle is the handle to the error bar lines
set(h2(2), 'Marker', 'none');