{"id":2366,"date":"2009-01-02T15:29:02","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T15:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2009\/01\/02\/automatic-text-placement\/"},"modified":"2009-01-02T15:29:02","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T15:29:02","slug":"automatic-text-placement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2009\/01\/02\/automatic-text-placement\/","title":{"rendered":"Automatic Text Placement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns:mwsh=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/namespace\/mcode\/v1\/syntaxhighlight.dtd\" class=\"content\">\r\n   <p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/fileexchange\/authors\/15007\">Jiro<\/a>'s pick this week is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/fileexchange\/11466-textbp--text-with-legend-style--best--placement\"><tt>textbp<\/tt><\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/fileexchange\/authors\/22433\">Peter Mao<\/a>.\r\n   <\/p>\r\n   <p>Have you ever wanted to place a text on a figure (using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/help\/releases\/R2008b\/techdoc\/ref\/text.html\"><tt>TEXT<\/tt><\/a>), and end up spending time trying to figure out a nice location where it doesn't cover up the data? To be reusable for arbitrary\r\n      data, you have to be clever in determining the X-Y location.\r\n   <\/p>\r\n   <p>If only MATLAB could do this work for you...<\/p>\r\n   <p>Peter took on this challenge, and wrote <tt>textbp<\/tt>. With this, you can simply ask MATLAB to place the text at the \"best\" location. Now, <i>that's<\/i> clever.\r\n   <\/p><pre style=\"background: #F9F7F3; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid rgb(200,200,200)\">plot(membrane(6));\r\ntextbp(<span style=\"color: #A020F0\">'This doesn''t cover up any data'<\/span>);\r\ntextbp(<span style=\"color: #A020F0\">'This one doesn''t either'<\/span>);\r\ntextbp(<span style=\"color: #A020F0\">'Niether does this'<\/span>);\r\ntextbp(<span style=\"color: #A020F0\">'Nor this'<\/span>);<\/pre><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/pick\/autotextplacement_01.png\"> <p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/?p=2366#respond\">Comments<\/a>?\r\n   <\/p><script language=\"JavaScript\">\r\n<!--\r\n\r\n    function grabCode_5a85e59c701245149de59a8ceed32b38() {\r\n        \/\/ Remember the title so we can use it in the new page\r\n        title = document.title;\r\n\r\n        \/\/ Break up these strings so that their presence\r\n        \/\/ in the Javascript doesn't mess up the search for\r\n        \/\/ the MATLAB code.\r\n        t1='5a85e59c701245149de59a8ceed32b38 ' + '##### ' + 'SOURCE BEGIN' + ' #####';\r\n        t2='##### ' + 'SOURCE END' + ' #####' + ' 5a85e59c701245149de59a8ceed32b38';\r\n    \r\n        b=document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];\r\n        i1=b.innerHTML.indexOf(t1)+t1.length;\r\n        i2=b.innerHTML.indexOf(t2);\r\n \r\n        code_string = b.innerHTML.substring(i1, i2);\r\n        code_string = code_string.replace(\/REPLACE_WITH_DASH_DASH\/g,'--');\r\n\r\n        \/\/ Use \/x3C\/g instead of the less-than character to avoid errors \r\n        \/\/ in the XML parser.\r\n        \/\/ Use '\\x26#60;' instead of '<' so that the XML parser\r\n        \/\/ doesn't go ahead and substitute the less-than character. \r\n        code_string = code_string.replace(\/\\x3C\/g, '\\x26#60;');\r\n\r\n        author = 'Jiro Doke';\r\n        copyright = 'Copyright 2008 The MathWorks, Inc.';\r\n\r\n        w = window.open();\r\n        d = w.document;\r\n        d.write('<pre>\\n');\r\n        d.write(code_string);\r\n\r\n        \/\/ Add author and copyright lines at the bottom if specified.\r\n        if ((author.length > 0) || (copyright.length > 0)) {\r\n            d.writeln('');\r\n            d.writeln('%%');\r\n            if (author.length > 0) {\r\n                d.writeln('% _' + author + '_');\r\n            }\r\n            if (copyright.length > 0) {\r\n                d.writeln('% _' + copyright + '_');\r\n            }\r\n        }\r\n\r\n        d.write('<\/pre>\\n');\r\n      \r\n      d.title = title + ' (MATLAB code)';\r\n      d.close();\r\n      }   \r\n      \r\n-->\r\n<\/script><p style=\"text-align: right; font-size: xx-small; font-weight:lighter;   font-style: italic; color: gray\"><br><a href=\"javascript:grabCode_5a85e59c701245149de59a8ceed32b38()\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;        font-style: italic;\">Get \r\n            the MATLAB code \r\n            <noscript>(requires JavaScript)<\/noscript><\/span><\/a><br><br>\r\n      Published with MATLAB&reg; 7.7<br><\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<!--\r\n5a85e59c701245149de59a8ceed32b38 ##### SOURCE BEGIN #####\r\n%%\r\n% <https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/fileexchange\/authors\/15007\r\n% Jiro>'s pick this week is\r\n% <https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/fileexchange\/11466-textbp--text-with-legend-style--best--placement\r\n% |textbp|> by\r\n% <https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/fileexchange\/authors\/22433\r\n% Peter Mao>.\r\n%\r\n% Have you ever wanted to place a text on a figure (using\r\n% <https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/help\/releases\/R2008b\/techdoc\/ref\/text.html\r\n% |TEXT|>), and end up spending time trying to figure out a nice location \r\n% where it doesn't cover up the data? 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