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## Display Text Outside Axes

This example shows how to display text outside an axes by creating a second axes for the text. MATLAB® always displays text objects within an axes. If you want to place a text description alongside an axes, then you must create another axes to position the text.

Create an invisible axes, ax1, that encompasses the entire figure window by specifying its position as [0 0 1 1]. Then, create a smaller axes, ax2, to contain the actual plot. Create a line plot in the smaller axes by specifying ax2 as an input argument to the plot function.

fig = figure; ax1 = axes('Position',[0 0 1 1],'Visible','off'); ax2 = axes('Position',[.3 .1 .6 .8]); t = 0:1000; y = 0.25*exp(-0.005*t); plot(ax2,t,y) 

Define the text. Use a cell array to create multiline text.

descr = {'Plot of the function:'; 'y = A{\ite}^{-\alpha{\itt}}'; ' '; 'With the values:'; 'A = 0.25'; '\alpha = .005'; 't = 0:1000'}; 

Set the larger axes to be the current axes since the text function places text in the current axes. Then, display the text.

axes(ax1) % sets ax1 to current axes text(.025,0.6,descr)