Rotate Individual Letters in a String

Hello! I wonder if there is a way to have the word SINE rotated 90% counter-clockwise and each of the letters 90% clockwise so that the letters stand normal on oneanother like:

E N I S

Thanks!

Answer 1

[Jan]

Does this help:

S = 'SINE';
C = cell(1, numel(S));
for i = 1:numel(S)
  C{i} = S(i);
end
% >> C = {'E', 'N', 'I', 'S'}
text(0.5, 0.5, C);

? I'm still not sure, what you want to achieve.

[Dima]

Brilliant!!!! this one worked! thanks so much!!))) can you please explain to me how this code works?

My aim is to place vertical text markers on MULTIPLE points in a chart so I used a code like this:

text(Num(7:end2,1)-1,Num(7:end2,77),'S1')

now I just replaced it to work in the for-end way:

for j=7:end2

text(j,Num(j,76),C,'FontSize',2,'Color','W','VerticalAlignment','middle','HorizontalAlignment','center','Rotation',0,'BackgroundColor',[1,0.4,0.6]);

end

and it works superb!!! I now just need to generate separate word strong for each point from

S = 'SINE';

C = cell(1, numel(S));

for i = 1:numel(S)

C{i} = S(i);

end

Answer 2

[bym]

   t = 'sine'

   flipud(t')

ans =

e
n
i
s

[Dima]

thanks...but when I try to text the oputput of flipud(t') it gives the same error:

??? Error using ==> text

Each string specified must have a corresponding set of coordinates

[bym]

what are your x y arguments passed to text()?

Answer 3

[Dima]

I mean:

E
N
I
S

Answer 4

[Dima]

I found a way to create the vertical string :

t1 = 'S'; t2 = 'I'; t3 = 'N'; t4 = 'E';
S1 = char(t1, t2, t3);

But when I try to text this string I get the following error:

??? Error using ==> text
Each string specified must have a corresponding set of coordinates

I wonder what is the reason for this error?

Thanks!

[Walter Roberson]

Your S1 assignment is the same as

S1 = 'SIN' .';

(No E because you did not include t4 in your char() call)

"help text" is more clear on the reason you are getting the error:

"If 'string' is an array the same number of rows as the

length of X and Y, TEXT marks each point with the corresponding row of the 'string' array."

Your array did not have the same number of rows as the length of x and y as you only passed one x and y each probably.

You will have to position the characters individually; text() does not have a mechanism to automatically position the characters in the manner you would like.

[Dima]

sorry I meant:

S1 = strvcat(t1, t2, t3);

[Walter Roberson]

char() with multiple single-character arguments turns out to do vertical cat anyhow.

[Dima]

you think it is impossible to rotate the text in this way with no function whatsoever?