Adding legend in Matlab to the layout

Hi everyone, I want to add the following legend to this layout but don't know how to do it.

Square shape is for Building Triangle shape for HBSs Stars shape for ABSs.

Any help will be really appreciated, thank you so much.

[dpb]

Gotta' run, but

doc text

should get you started, I'd think...

[Aftab Ahmed Khan]

Hi, How can i draw a triangle, square and star using text function ?

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

Enlarging on dpb’s comment, consider a textbox. See Annotation Textbox Properties for details.

[Aftab Ahmed Khan]

Hi, Done with the star and and delta, but what is TeX command for a square ? Can't find it there.

[Aftab Ahmed Khan]

Hi this is where i am stuck in the legend section. 1. Can't draw the square shape for the building. 2. Also the corresponding colours for each element for the legend as at the moment all of them are black.

Here is my code for the textbox section.......................

annotation('textbox',... [0.75 0.65 0.05 0.1],... 'String',{'Legend \Delta-HBS \ast-ABS -Building'},... 'FontSize',12,... 'FontName','Arial',... 'LineStyle','-',... 'EdgeColor',[0 0 0],... 'LineWidth',2,... 'BackgroundColor',[1 1 1],... 'Color',[0 0 0]);

[Star Strider]

Had to look for that, since TeX seems to have overlooked it. Apologise for the delay.

The best option I can think of for the open square is the Webdings character 99 ( 63 hex ). (I believe it displays as the lower-case ‘c’ in ASCII.) In text, you can specify FontName and FontSize, so that might be your best option. (Webdings is a standard Windows-supplied font.)

This illustrates the Webdings version, whimsically:

figure(1)
plot([-0.3:0.1:0.3], 0.3+[-0.3:0.1:0.3].^2)
text(-0.3, 0.7, 'c', 'FontName', 'Webdings', 'Color', 'b')
text(0.3, 0.7, 'c', 'FontName', 'Webdings', 'Color', 'b')
text(0.0, 0.5, '\Delta', 'Color', 'r')
axis([-1  1    0  1])

The only other option I can think of for the open square is the Unicode symbol for it: □. The problem is that I don’t know if it will display correctly in MATLAB. I’ve had problems displaying Unicode characters in MATLAB, which usually displays them as: ??.

EDIT — Added '\Delta' and 'Color'.

[Aftab Ahmed Khan]

Done, Thank you once again. Cheers bro........

[Star Strider]

As always, my pleasure!

[Aftab Ahmed Khan]

Hi, Just to show you, this is what i made as final version of my layout. Take care.

[Star Strider]

Cool!

I’m sure your audience will be appropriately impressed, and appreciative of your efforts!