title that spans subplots
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Stewart Wiseman
on 12 Aug 2011
Answered: Steven Lord
on 23 Oct 2018
Hi, I am a newbie. How can I add a title so that it spans across two graphs plotted with subplot? (I can add titles to individual plots and even add a title to a figure window but neither of these is what I want). Thanks
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Patrick Kalita
on 12 Aug 2011
An annotation is good to use here. It is a little easier than the text command because the position is relative to the figure -- not one of the axes. Here's an example:
subplot(1,2,1), plot(1:10)
subplot(1,2,2), plot(1:10)
annotation('textbox', [0 0.9 1 0.1], ...
'String', 'hello, title', ...
'EdgeColor', 'none', ...
'HorizontalAlignment', 'center')
If this is just a one-off thing, you can also add an annotation interactively. That is described here in the documentation.
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Sean de Wolski
on 12 Aug 2011
How about with super title!
doc suptitle
What it looks like:

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Sean de Wolski
on 12 Aug 2011
Oh. I thought it was standard.
It's in the Bio toolbox as part of a yeast infection demo.
*A word may have been inserted for humor's sake.
the cyclist
on 12 Aug 2011
One way to do this is with the text() command:
>> subplot(1,2,1), plot(1:10)
>> subplot(1,2,2), plot(1:10)
>> text(-10,10.2,'Test title spanning two subplots -- Some fine tuning will be required')
>>
In this case, the text positioning is relatively to the second axes.
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