How to move the Yaxis exponent outside
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I would like to move the exponent of the Y axis that is naturally above the figure, to the outside (left side) of the figure.
See my impressive plot attached. Any suggestion (I mean with an automatic way) such as 'TickDir' 'out' for the ticks, but for the exponent x10^6 here. Cheers
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Voss
on 19 Feb 2024
I don't know of a way to move that exponent label, but if you have R2023b or later, you can use the ysecondarylabel function to set its string to empty, and then create your own exponent label (using the text function) where you want.
plot(1e6:1e6:7e6)
ylim([1e6 7.5e6])
ax = gca();
ysecondarylabel(ax,'')
text(ax, ...
'String','x10^{6}', ...
'Units','normalized', ...
'Position',[0 1], ...
'HorizontalAlignment','right', ...
'VerticalAlignment','bottom')
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Sulaymon Eshkabilov
on 19 Feb 2024
Here is one example how to get it done:
% Sample data for plot display
x = linspace(0, 2*pi, 100);
y = 1e6 * sin(x);
%% Demo 1
figure;
plot(x, y);
yticks([0, max(y)])
yticklabels({'0', '10^6'});
ylabel('Y-axis');
title('Example Plot');
xlabel('X-axis');
%% Demo 2
figure;
plot(x, y);
yticks([min(y), 0, max(y)])
yticklabels( {'-10^6', '0', '10^6'});
ylabel('Y-axis');
title('Example Plot');
xlabel('X-axis');
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