Text in MATLAB plot with negativ coordinates

Hello

I am trying to plot text into my existing MATLAB plot. The text should be on the left side of my y-axis. However if I use text(-0.075,0.3,'bla'), the text will always intersect with the y axis no matter what value I choose for the y coordiante. I managed to position the text under the x-axis but somehow it just does not work for my y axis.

Maybe there is an issue with the normalized coordinates of the plot?

Note: Same thing happens when i try to move ylabel to the left

[Ben]

The problem has been resolved. The problem was that I am pretty lame today and i did not realize I am not working with normalized coordinates...

Answer 1

[Chad Gilbert]

It might sound paradoxical, but if you set the horizontalalignment to 'right', instead of the default, 'left', your text should line up nicely. E.g.:

   hdl = text(x,y, 'example');
   set(hdl,'horizontalalignment','left');