How can I change the degree symbol in axis tick label while using axesm function?

Hello everyone,

You can see that the degree symbol in axis tick label (see Figure 1) is a bit higher position than normal. I tried to change it perfectly superscript (see Figure 2) taking handle of the function axesm but I can't. I did not find any option in the handle to change it. I used text function instead to prepare Figure 2. It is very time consuming to make degree symbol perfectly superscript using textm function. Some journal ask to make degree symbol perfectly superscript.

[darova]

Look

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[Md Atiqul Islam]

@darova: I have corrected my question. Actually, I used text function instead of textm to format the tick label in Figure 2.

ax3=axes('Position',[0.10 0.10 0.05 0.815]);

set(ax3,'visible','off');

text(1.5,0.02,'20{\circ} N','FontName','Times New Roman','FontSize',12);

text(1.5,0.16,'21{\circ} N','FontName','Times New Roman','FontSize',12);

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In axesm function, 'MeridianLabel' and 'ParallelLabel' are used to control the tick label. If I use these two properties to get degree symbols, I am getting the symbols as in Figure 1.

Is it possible to get degree symbol as like in Figure 2 using axesm function alone?

[darova]

This code

plot(0,0)
title('90{\circ}')
% title(['90' char(176)])
text(1.5,0.02,'20{\circ} N','FontName','Times New Roman','FontSize',12);
text(1.5,0.16,'21{\circ} N','FontName','Times New Roman','FontSize',12);
xlim([-1 3])

Produces this

[Md Atiqul Islam]

@darova: could you please change the degree symbol in the tick labels of the following figure?

latlim = [-80 80];
lonlim = [100 -120];
figure
axesm('robinson','MapLatLimit',latlim,'MapLonLimit',lonlim,...
    'Frame','on','Grid','on','MeridianLabel','on','ParallelLabel','on')
axis off
setm(gca,'MLabelLocation',60)
load coastlines
plotm(coastlat,coastlon)

Answer 1

[darova]

If you type something like:

h = get(gca,'children');
>> get(h(2),'string')

You will see that each label has "^" symbol

ans =
 60^{\circ} N 

So i just deleted that symbol:

h = get(gca,'children');
for i = 1:length(h)
    if strcmp(get(h(i),'type'), 'text')        % check if object is text
        str = get(h(i),'string');              % get string
        ix = strfind(str,'^');                 % find "^" symbol
        str(ix) = [];                          % delete the symbol
        set(h(i),'string',str)
    end
end

I have older MATLAB (v2013), maybe code will be a bit different with yours

[Md Atiqul Islam]

@darova: it works. thanks a lot for your help.