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text

Displays text at a specific location on the icon of a masked subsystem.

Syntax

• text(x, y, text)
  text(x, y, text, 'horizontalAlignment', halign, 
  'verticalAlignment', valign)
  text(x, y, text, 'texmode', 'on')
  

Description

The text command places a character string (text or the contents of stringvariablename) at a location specified by the point (x,y). The units depend on the Drawing coordinates parameter. For more information, see Icon Options" in the online Simulink documentation.

text(x,y, text, 'texmode', 'on') allows you to use TeX formatting commands in text. The TeX formatting commands in turn allow you to include symbols and Greek letters in icon text. See Mathematical Symbols, Greek Letters, and Tex Characters in the MATLAB documentation for information on the TeX formatting commands supported by Simulink.

You can optionally specify the horizontal and/or vertical alignment of the text relative to the point (x, y) in the text command.

The text command offers the following horizontal alignment options

Option	Aligns
left	The left end of the text at the specified point
right	The right end of the text at the specified point
center	The center of the text at the specified point

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The text command offers the following vertical alignment options

Option	Aligns
base	The baseline of the text at the specified point
bottom	The bottom line of the text at the specified point
middle	The midline of the text at the specified point
cap	The capitals line of the text at the specified point
top	The top of the text at the specified point

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Note    While this commands is identical in name to its corresponding MATLAB function, it provides only the functionality described above.

Examples

The command

• text(0.5, 0.5, 'foobar', 'horizontalAlignment', 'center')
  

centers foobar in the icon.

The command

• text(.05,.5,'{\itEquation:}  \Sigma \alpha^2 + 
  \beta^2 \rightarrow \infty, \Pi, \phi_3 = {\bfcool}', 
  'hor','left','texmode','on')
  

draws a left-aligned equation on the icon.

See Also

• disp, fprintf, port_label
  

port_label

Simulink Debugger Commands