Reduce the line height for an annotation textbox

The following code

annotation('textbox','String',{'\fontsize{10}TEST', '\fontsize{15}7,987,157', '\fontsize{10}+8,829'},'FontName','Consolas')

creates this box

One can notice that the third string is farther than the first one from the the middle one.

Moreover, by increasing the fontsize of the middle string, the last one will go even far away. Also the first string will go a little far away.

annotation('textbox','String',{'\fontsize{10}TEST', '\fontsize{25}7,987,157', '\fontsize{10}+8,829'},'FontName','Consolas')

Is there a way to reduce the line height or, similarly, to reduce the distance between the strings?

[darova]

Look ok on my computer (2013v)

Did you try another font?

[giannit]

I tried with default font, arial, verdana, times new roman, but in all cases the strings are far away

[darova]

Here is the last idea i have

opengl software

[giannit]

Output doesn't change :c thanks anyway for help

[Ameer Hamza]

giannit, can you tell what MATLAB release are you using and on which operating system. I tried it on macOS with R2020a, and I get the same output as you. But if I run this on the MATLAB online, it doesn't have extra space (image shown below). MATLAB online use Linux VM. I don't have access to a window machine to cannot try there.

[giannit]

on windows 10.

I just tried on matlab online, the simple 1 line command of the question works without adding extra space, but when I add more sofisticated stuff, other things start to not work properly. I think this is due to limitation of matlab online

[Ameer Hamza]

I guess these functions were never intended for sophisticated text formatting with multi-line text. That is why there are some issues if the command becomes complex.

[Adam Danz]

The problem is reproduced in r2020a using Windows 7. It appears that the space between lines n and n+1 is based on the fontsize that is in line n.

Note that the default verticalAlignment of the annotation is "top" but that only affects the entire text box as a whole, not each component within the textbox.

Answer 1

[giannit]

A workaround is simply to move the fontsize command of the last string to the middle string, that is

annotation('textbox','String',{'\fontsize{10}TEST', '\fontsize{25}7,987,157\fontsize{10}', '+8,829'},'FontName','Consolas')

[darova]

[Adam Danz]

Well done

[Ameer Hamza]

So simple, yet so tricky.