Text inside curve like clabel

Hi, is there a way of writing a text inside a closed curve (e.g. an ellipse) similarly to what would be done with clabel? I compute myself the contour lines without the use of the built-in contour functions, but I still would like to place a label inside the curve. Thanks!

[Mathieu NOE]

hello

why not simply use text at the x,y coordintaes you already know

Add text descriptions to data points - MATLAB text - MathWorks France

Answer 1

[Adam Danz]

> is there a way of writing a text inside a closed curve (e.g. an ellipse) similarly to what would be done with clabel?

In short, no. You'd have to build it yourself and it would be a heafty workload. You could, of course, use text to place a string at a specific location and orientation but all characters will share the same baseline (it can't curve).

To make text curve you'd need to set each character's position and orientation which can be computed from the curve. I demo this in a Community Highlight that shows text wrapped around a circle and the circular text is rotating so at each iteration of the animation, the character position and orientation is updated. But this is easier for a circle than for a curve with arbitrary curvature.