how to set default properties for annotations

Is it possible to set the deafult properties for annotations? Something like set(0,'defaultAnnotationTextInterpreter','latex')?

Regards, Johannes

Answer 1

[Mike Garrity]

The pattern is

• 'Default'
• The value of the object's Type property
• The name of the property you want to set.

So, if we check the Type property of an annotation:

h = annotation('textarrow');
h.Type

We get:

textarrowshape

And if we look for the property, we find that its name is 'Interpreter'. Therefore, we want to do this:

set(groot,'DefaultTextarrowshapeInterpreter','latex')

And then we can do this:

annotation('textarrow', ...
           'String','$$ \int_{0}^{2} x^2\sin(x) dx $$', ...
           'FontSize',12)

And we get this:

Answer 2

[Johannes Weidenauer]

Yes, that's it! I did know the pattern, but I didn't know how to find out the Type property.

Thank you!

(And thanks for showing this with a nice example!)