How to fit legend inside a figure

i need to plot 250 signals at a time so what the best way to fit all the legends(250) next to plot.

now only few legends are visible(say 50) due to space constraints

Answer 1

[Jan]

A search in the FEX is a good idea: See FEX: legendgrid, FEX: legendflex, FEX: columnlegend, FEX: gridlegend.

But I doubt, whether a legend with 250 entries can be useful at all. Finding the corresponding line in the diagram will be very time consuming. Perhaps there is visualization which has a much higher usability.

[shaz]

i have 80 signals & correspondingly 80 legends

as Matt Fig explained how to have multi column legend for this example

plot(rand(250)) L = legend(regexp(sprintf('A%i;',1:80),';','split'));

Thanks in advance

Answer 2

[Matt Fig]

Even with fontsize 1 the entries are not visible. I think you could make your own legend, but it would require a bit of HG fun and still take up most of the figure. Perhaps you need to rethink your approach...

plot(rand(250))
L = legend(regexp(sprintf('A%i;',1:250),';','split'));
set(L,'fontsize',1)