How do I write a legend with multiple lines?

I'm trying to set a legend on the top of a graph that has a lot of data. If I just orientate it horizontally it simply won't fit the screen and I don't want to set it at neither of the sides as I would waste space. So I'm trying to create a multiple line legend with, say, half of the data on one line and the rest of it on the line below. I've looked on the forums and couldn't figure out a way to do so. Is there any way I can do this? I've even tried setting multiple legends but even that won't work.

Thanks!

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

This works for me:

ts = sprintf('This is a\ntwo-line title');
title(ts)

[Arthur Brigatto]

This works well for the title, but I don't think I can use it with the legend. I want it to be like this:

---data 1 ---data 2 ---data 3

---data 4 ---data 5 ---data 6

[Star Strider]

I apparently misread your question.

I looked through the File Exchange and found columnlegend that looks like it will do what you want.

[Arthur Brigatto]

Thanks for the reply!

This almost works, I'm ploting some of the data using the fill function and the columnlegend only works for lines. So it is not 100% solved..

[Star Strider]

My pleasure!

You may have to resort to one of the annotation or text functions. I don’t know how you would want to do the area legend entries, so I can’t offer any specific suggestions. Perhaps bold text in the colour of the patch (area) object, or black text overlain on the background colour of the patch object would work.

[Arthur Brigatto]

Hm, showing it on the area might be a good way to do it.. I'll see if it is plausible.

Thanks again!

[Star Strider]

My pleasure!

That would work, but I was initially thinking of something like this to go near the legend:

text(xtxt, ytxt, 'This is what the yellow area represents', 'BackgroundColor','y')