Re: Help with legend

[Ben Abbott]

> On Dec 15, 2018, at 08:02, Rik <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> 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

Ahh, ok I misunderstood

Ben