ylabelBug

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Mathworks Case ID: 297565, submitted 10/4/99.

YLABEL command (in Matlab plots) bug and work around.

dear mathworks

there's a bug in the YLABEL command. Here's a tiny program that
demonstrates the bug.

% c vs k
k=1:100;
c=1./k;
loglog(k,c)
%xlabel('Extent (i.e. number of
features)','FontSize',14,'FontWeight','bold');
ylabel('Threshold contrast','FontSize',14,'FontWeight','bold');

The plot looks ok in Matlab, but if you copy and paste it into any other
application, eg Microsoft PowerPoint, the YLABEL command results in a
spurious "TextEnd" error message in the middle of the graph. The TITLE
and
XLABEL commands don't have this problem.

I'm using Matlab 5.2.1 on a PowerMac, Mac OS 8.6. Is there any
workaround? I need y labels.

best

denis pelli
professor of psychology and neural science at nyu
apple developer

Reported as a bug to Mathworks on 10/4/99, Case ID: 297565. Their reply (10/4) follows:

Dear Denis,

I am writing in response to your e-mail regarding YLABEL. I believe the
following work around will help you.

This is a bug and it has been reported to our development staff.

If you are printing to a Postscript printer, then the work around is to
attach Postscript to the PICT file.

To do this:

1) Choose the Output Preferences item from the Options menu in Matlab.

2) In this dialog box, check the Honor Figure Position checkbox.

3) Select Copy PICT with EPS as the default format.

Then you can copy and paste a graph into another application which will
result in proper output.

If this does not work for you, here is another technical note which may
pertain to your problem:

web http://www.mathworks.com/support/solutions/v5/22133.shtml

I hope that this helps you!

Sincerely,

Sean Cote
Technical Support Engineer
scote@mathworks.com