<html lang="en"> <head> <title>Text Properties - GNU Octave</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> <meta name="description" content="GNU Octave"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.13"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="up" href="Graphics-Object-Properties.html#Graphics-Object-Properties" title="Graphics Object Properties"> <link rel="prev" href="Line-Properties.html#Line-Properties" title="Line Properties"> <link rel="next" href="Image-Properties.html#Image-Properties" title="Image Properties"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"><!-- pre.display { font-family:inherit } pre.format { font-family:inherit } pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } span.roman { font-family:serif; font-weight:normal; } span.sansserif { font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; } --></style> </head> <body> <div class="node"> <a name="Text-Properties"></a> <p> Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Image-Properties.html#Image-Properties">Image Properties</a>, Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Line-Properties.html#Line-Properties">Line Properties</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="Graphics-Object-Properties.html#Graphics-Object-Properties">Graphics Object Properties</a> <hr> </div> <h5 class="subsubsection">15.3.3.5 Text Properties</h5> <p><a name="index-text-properties-1523"></a> The <code>text</code> properties are: <dl> <dt><code>__modified__</code> <br><dt><code>__myhandle__</code> <br><dt><code>backgroundcolor</code> <br><dt><code>beingdeleted</code> <br><dt><code>busyaction</code> <br><dt><code>buttondownfcn</code> <br><dt><code>children</code> <br><dt><code>clipping</code> <br><dt><code>color</code><dd>The color of the text. See <a href="Colors.html#Colors">Colors</a>. <br><dt><code>createfcn</code> <br><dt><code>deletefcn</code> <br><dt><code>displayname</code><dd>The text of the legend entry corresponding to this line. <br><dt><code>edgecolor</code> <br><dt><code>editing</code> <br><dt><code>erasemode</code> <br><dt><code>fontangle</code><dd>Flag whether the font is italic or normal. Valid values are 'normal', 'italic' and 'oblique'. <br><dt><code>fontname</code><dd>The font used for the text. <br><dt><code>fontsize</code><dd>The size of the font, in points to use. <br><dt><code>fontunits</code> <br><dt><code>fontweight</code><dd>Flag whether the font is bold, etc. Valid values are 'normal', 'bold', 'demi' or 'light'. <br><dt><code>handlevisibility</code> <br><dt><code>hittest</code> <br><dt><code>horizontalalignment</code><dd>May be <code>"left"</code>, <code>"center"</code>, or <code>"right"</code>. <br><dt><code>interpreter</code><dd>Determines how the text is rendered. Valid values are 'none', 'tex' or 'latex'. <br><dt><code>interruptible</code> <br><dt><code>linestyle</code> <br><dt><code>linewidth</code> <br><dt><code>margin</code> <br><dt><code>parent</code> <br><dt><code>position</code><dd>The coordinates of the text object. <br><dt><code>rotation</code><dd>The angle of rotation for the displayed text, measured in degrees. <br><dt><code>selected</code> <br><dt><code>selectionhighlight</code> <br><dt><code>string</code><dd>The character string contained by the text object. <br><dt><code>tag</code> <br><dt><code>type</code> <br><dt><code>uicontextmenu</code> <br><dt><code>units</code><dd>May be <code>"normalized"</code> or <code>"graph"</code>. <br><dt><code>userdata</code> <br><dt><code>verticalalignment</code> <br><dt><code>visible</code> <br><dt><code>xlim</code> <br><dt><code>xliminclude</code> <br><dt><code>ylim</code> <br><dt><code>yliminclude</code> <br><dt><code>zlim</code> <br><dt><code>zliminclude</code><dd> </dl> </body></html>