we'll continue to consider your recommendations for Pick-of-the-Week recognition!Īs always, comments to this blog post are welcome. Please continue to steer us to your favorite File Exchange submissions. (again!) to Frank Engel for the nomination. Pekka's function affords great control beyond just making a tight array of subplots. Ha = tight_subplot(2,2,0.05,) Ĭreates a 2x2 array of axes with a normalized horizontal gap of 0.05 a vertical gap of 0.025 an equal height margin (topĪnd bottom) of 0.05 and unequal width margins-0.3 on the left, and 0.05 on the right. And, of course, it conveniently returns a vectorīy default, the axes spacing is tighter than subplot's:Īnd you can clearly see how the function got its name.īetter still, ask tight_subplot for custom spacing: figure % ha = tight_subplot(Nh, Nw, gap, marg_h, marg_w)Īllows me to specify the number of horizontal axes, the number of vertical axes, the gap as a scalar (or as a vector of horizontalĪnd vertical gap values, ), and the height and width margins. 'Tight Subplot' is not that the default axes spacing makes better use of the figure's real estate, but that it gives me complete-andĮasy-control over horizontal and vertical gap spacing, and separately, of left-and-right and top-and-bottom margin spacing. Fair enough (though with a bit of effort, one can customize the position of subplots). (default) gaps between axes generated with the subplot command. h subplot(.) returns the handle to the new axes object. left, bottom, width, and height are in normalized coordinates in the range from 0.0 to 1.0.

subplot('Position',left bottom width height) creates an axes at the position specified by a four-element vector. Judging from the title of the submission, Pekka wrote and shared 'Tight Subplot' because he was dissatisfied with the large subplot(h) makes the axes object with handle h current for subsequent plotting commands. Brett's Pick this week is the Tight Subplot, by Pekka Kumpulainen.

Matlab subplot