Align xticklabels along horizontal line

Hello,

I have this bar chart, and I need that the xticklabels (the days) have to be aligned along horizontal line. I need, that the days start at the same horizontal line. The days are defined as categorical values:

Xday1=categorical({'Jan.3','Jan.4','Jan.12','Jan.13','Feb.23','Feb.24','Mar.1','Mar.2','Apr.6', ...
 'Jun.12','Jun.16','Jul.12','Jul.13','Oct.5','Oct.27','Oct.28','Oct.29','Nov.19','Nov.20'});
Xday1=reordercats(Xday1,{'Jan.3','Jan.4','Jan.12','Jan.13','Feb.23','Feb.24','Mar.1','Mar.2','Apr.6', ...
 'Jun.12','Jun.16','Jul.12','Jul.13','Oct.5','Oct.27','Oct.28','Oct.29','Nov.19','Nov.20'});

Also, I need to double or triple the bar width, but when I set the bar widths to 2, the bars start ovelapping.

Any help would be appreciated.

Petr

[Dyuman Joshi]

It would be better if you can attach all the relevant code used to produce the bar chart and things related to it.

[Petr Michalek]

Okay, here is the code for the figure:

Xday1=categorical({'Jan.3','Jan.4','Jan.12','Jan.13','Feb.23','Feb.24','Mar.1','Mar.2','Apr.6', ...
 'Jun.12','Jun.16','Jul.12','Jul.13','Oct.5','Oct.27','Oct.28','Oct.29','Nov.19','Nov.20'});
Xday1=reordercats(Xday1,{'Jan.3','Jan.4','Jan.12','Jan.13','Feb.23','Feb.24','Mar.1','Mar.2','Apr.6', ...
 'Jun.12','Jun.16','Jul.12','Jul.13','Oct.5','Oct.27','Oct.28','Oct.29','Nov.19','Nov.20'});
figure (1) 
b1=bar(Xday1,[itcs20usek1(1) itcs40usek1(1) itcs60usek1(1) itcs80usek1(1);   itcs20usek2(1) itcs40usek2(1) itcs60usek2(1) itcs80usek2(1); ... 1, 2
 itcs20usek14(1) itcs40usek14(1) itcs60usek14(1) itcs80usek14(1);   itcs20usek15(1) itcs40usek15(1) itcs60usek15(1) itcs80usek15(1); ... 14, 15
 itcs20usek3(1) itcs40usek3(1) itcs60usek3(1) itcs80usek3(1);   itcs20usek4(1) itcs40usek4(1) itcs60usek4(1) itcs80usek4(1); ... 3, 4
 itcs20usek16(1) itcs40usek16(1) itcs60usek16(1) itcs80usek16(1);   itcs20usek5(1) itcs40usek5(1) itcs60usek5(1) itcs80usek5(1); ... 16, 5
 itcs20usek6(1) itcs40usek6(1) itcs60usek6(1) itcs80usek6(1);   itcs20usek7(1) itcs40usek7(1) itcs60usek7(1) itcs80usek7(1); ... 6, 7
 itcs20usek8(1) itcs40usek8(1) itcs60usek8(1) itcs80usek8(1);   itcs20usek9(1) itcs40usek9(1) itcs60usek9(1) itcs80usek9(1); ... 8, 9
 itcs20usek10(1) itcs40usek10(1) itcs60usek10(1) itcs80usek10(1);   itcs20usek11(1) itcs40usek11(1) itcs60usek11(1) itcs80usek11(1); ... 10, 11
 itcs20usek21(1) itcs40usek21(1) itcs60usek21(1) itcs80usek21(1);   itcs20usek22(1) itcs40usek22(1) itcs60usek22(1) itcs80usek22(1); ... 21, 22
 itcs20usek23(1) itcs40usek23(1) itcs60usek23(1) itcs80usek23(1); ... 23
 itcs20usek12(1) itcs40usek12(1) itcs60usek12(1) itcs80usek12(1);   itcs20usek13(1) itcs40usek13(1) itcs60usek13(1) itcs80usek13(1)]); % 12, 13

Unrecognized function or variable 'Xday1'.

b1(1).FaceColor = [0 0 0];   b1(2).FaceColor = [1 1 1];
b1(3).FaceColor = [.5 .5 .5];   b1(4).FaceColor = [.25 .25 .25];
ylabel('$\sigma_u/u*$','Interpreter','latex'); % xlabel('day');
leg=legend('H=20m','H=40m','H=60m','H=80m'); 
set(leg,'interpreter','latex'); legend('boxoff');
ylim([0 4]);    ax=gca; ax.FontSize=14;

[Dyuman Joshi]

What are the variables used in the call to bar()? Provide the values for them as well.

Also, why are you dynamically naming variables?

[Petr Michalek]

I am sorry, but you are asking for something completely different than I was asking. If you want to recreate my chart (sort of), just give to the variables some random numbers. I wanted to know how to align the Xtick Labels.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

In theory...

labels = {'123', '1234', '12345678'};

ax = gca;
bar(ax, [3 5 7])
xticks(ax, 1:3)
xlim(ax, [0 4])
xticklabels(ax, labels)
xtickangle(ax, 90)
drawnow();          %needed or TickLabelChild will be empty
ax.XAxis.TickLabelChild.HorizontalAlignment = 'right';    %left center right
ax.XAxis.TickLabelChild.VerticalAlignment = 'bottom';     %top middle bottom

You can see in practice it does not work