Xticklabel to split into two lines
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Giuseppe Degan Di Dieco
on 10 Dec 2021
Commented: Star Strider
on 13 Dec 2021
Dear All,
hope you are doing well.
I'd very grateful if you cold help me in understanding how to split a label for a bar xtick into two lines.
As you can see from the attached plot, it happens that the string 'Steel/concrete composite' is too long, and I'd would have something like 'Steel/concrete' in the upper line, and 'composite' below, that is
Steel/concrete
composite
Thanks for your time and help in advance, and best!
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Giuseppe
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Star Strider
on 10 Dec 2021
This has been updated to work in more recent releases.
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Star Strider
on 13 Dec 2021
As always, my pleasure!
I attempted to do something similar myself, then found this link and MathWorks’ solution, and just went with it.
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Voss
on 10 Dec 2021
Maybe this will work:
set(gca(),'XTickLabel',{'Concrete' 'Masonry' 'Steel' sprintf('Steel/concrete\\newlinecomposite')});
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