Re: Help with legend

[Rik]

On 12/14/2018 02:38 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>> On Dec 15, 2018, at 6:50 AM, Rik <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Could someone try the following in Matlab and send me the resulting image? 
>> I'm trying to test whether the automatic positioning of the legend box
>> takes in to account the axes ticks.
>>
>> --- Start Code ---
>> clf;
>> plot (rand (3,3));
>> set (gca, 'xtick', 1:0.25:3, 'ytick', 0:0.1:1);
>> set (gca, 'ticklength', [0.03 .05]);
>> hl = legend ();
>> print ('legtst.png', '-dpng');
>> --- End Code ---
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rik
> Rik,
>
> For auto-placement you should set location to ‘Best’. If no location is 
> specified, it defaults to ’NorthEast”
>
> Ben

My understanding was that "Best" works to eliminate overlaps between data
in the plots and the legend box.

I was interested in whether, given the location of "NorthEast", it would
try to avoid objects that are associated with the axes like the tick marks.

--Rik