Xticklabel to split into two lines

Dear All,

hope you are doing well.

I'd very grateful if you cold help me in understanding how to split a label for a bar xtick into two lines.

As you can see from the attached plot, it happens that the string 'Steel/concrete composite' is too long, and I'd would have something like 'Steel/concrete' in the upper line, and 'composite' below, that is

Steel/concrete

composite

Thanks for your time and help in advance, and best!

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Giuseppe

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

See: How do I create a multi-line tick label for a figure using MATLAB 7.10 (R2010a)? -

This has been updated to work in more recent releases.

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[Giuseppe Degan Di Dieco]

Thanks Star Strider for the tip.

At the provided link there's a comprehensive guide for multi-line axis ticks.

Best.

[Star Strider]

As always, my pleasure!

I attempted to do something similar myself, then found this link and MathWorks’ solution, and just went with it.

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Answer 2

[Voss]

Maybe this will work:

set(gca(),'XTickLabel',{'Concrete' 'Masonry' 'Steel' sprintf('Steel/concrete\\newlinecomposite')});

[Giuseppe Degan Di Dieco]

Thank you Benjamin.

Your solution is very straightforward and easy to code.

Thanks for your consideration.

Best.