title shifted into figure box

Hello,

I am running a for loop to produce several figures at once in some of the figures the title gets shifted into the figure box and is obstructed by some of my bars.

Here is the code I am using:

for i = 1:6

    X(1) = ave_dur_spei(1,i);
    X(2:7) = ave_dur_spei_gcm_ann(1:6,i);
    bar_h=bar(X);
    bar_child=get(bar_h,'Children');
    set(bar_child,'CData',X);
    set(gca,'XTickLabel',{'Historical';'cnrm-cm3';'gfdl-cm2-1';'miroc3-2-med';'mpi-echam5';'ncar-ccsm3';'ncar-pcm1'},'fontsize',18)
    xticklabel_rotate
    ylabel('average duration (months)','fontsize',18)
    title([num2str(x(i)),'-month SPEI: Austin, NV (duration below 90th percentile)'],'fontsize',14)
    set(gca,'fontsize',18)
    refline(0,X(1))

    saveas(gcf,['austin_',num2str(x(i))],'png')
    close gcf
end

The error only occurs when i = 3, 4, and 5...

Can anyone help me?

Thanks, Dan

[Walter Roberson]

Which MATLAB version and which operating system are you using?

[Jan]

How strange that "close gcf" works, because this means "close('gcf')", but Matlab understands what the user wants - a first version of feature('dwim').

[Dan]

Walter, I'm using 7.10.0(R2010a) and my operating system is Windows XP

Answer 1

[Jan]

TITLE creates a TEXT object with 'data' units. The position of the title is influenced by the axes' fontsize. Solution: Set the axes' fontsize at first and use 'normlized' units:

set(gca, 'fontsize', 18);
title([num2str(x(i)), '-month etc.'], 'fontsize', 14, ...
      'units', 'normalized', 'Position', [0.5, 1.02])

[Dan]

Thanks again Jan! I'm assuming if I'm having the same type of problem with the ylabel I can use a similar fix?

[Jan]

The YLabel considers the width of the YTickLabels, which is not easy to control. But it works equivalent to the title.

You can look in the source of ylabel.m.