Making legend entry with multiple markers side-by-side

Hello,

I would like to plot several data, then make only one legend entry for all of them, with all the different markers appearing one next to another. Is this possible? Otherwise, how can I change the position of markers in a legend (so far I only managed to change the position of the text).

Thanks,

Menka

Answer 1

[José-Luis]

• Place the markers next to each other:

If you are talking about changing a property to make it happen then the answer is no. There is no way to make it happen automagically, afaik. Legends are axes, so you could create your custom legend, or look in the file exchange to see if someone has done it before.

• Can I change the position of the markers in the legend:

Yes. I can think of two options. The first is to plot the objects in the order you want them to appear. The second is to rearrange them once you have plotted them. You could look at the function uistack(). Here is a quick example

 figure(1)
 plot(rand(10,1),'ko');
 hold on
 plot(rand(10,1),'rs');
 legend('first','second');

 figure(2)
 h1 = plot(rand(10,1),'ko');
 hold on
 h2 = plot(rand(10,1),'rs');
 uistack(h1,'top');
 legend('first','second')