Re: Unable to display multiline text

[Ben Abbott]

On Feb 21, 2012, at 11:59 AM, am304 wrote:

> Hi, I was trying to insert a multiline title on a plot (using GNU Octave 
> 3.2.4 on Win XP), and while experimenting I tried the code of "Demonstration 
> 4" in the text function reference page. Only the first line of the title and 
> axes labels were shown, but not the second line of the text. Any suggestion 
> why that may be?  Also, the "text" command generated the following error:
> error: text: dimension mismatch for coordinates and label
> error: called from:
> error:   C:\Octave\3.2.4_gcc-4.4.0\share\octave\3.2.4\m\plot\text.m at line 
> 91,
> column 2
> 
> It seems that any text, title, etc... function call doesn't accept a cell 
> array of strings as a label. Any suggestion? Many thanks in advance, Arnaud 

The demo's you're looking at on ...

        http://octave.sourceforge.net/octave/function/text.html

... are from the Octave 3.4.x series.

The Octave 3.2.x series doesn't support multiline text objects.

Ben