Number of decimals of axis labels

[Ben Abbott]

On Jun 11, 2009, at 4:38 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:

>
> On Jun 11, 2009, at 10:51 AM, German Ocampo wrote:
>
>> Good afternoon.
>>
>> I making a plot of two simple vectors, and I need  to change the
>> number of decimals of the axis labels. Do you have some tip in how
>> to do it?  Is it possible to change the orientation of the y-axis
>> title rotated 90 degrees?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> German
>
> Presently there is no method specify the rotation of the tick labels.
> However, you can try using text objects to create the labels you want.
>
> To do that you'll need to turn off the ticklabels.
>
> 	set (gca, "yticklabel", [])
>
> Ben

I forgot to answer your question regarding the decimals. If you'd like  
to force 2 decimal places ...

	set (gca, "xticklabel", cellstr (num2str (get (gca, "xtick")(:), "%. 
2f")))

For ytick's

	set (gca, "yticklabel", cellstr (num2str (get (gca, "ytick")(:), "%. 
2f")))

Ben