Specify location of clabel

I am trying to adjust the location of the contour labels. I would like them to be on the left side, as the right side is the more important side to see without distractions. I would like to find a solution besides the clabel 'manual' option as I'll be making several figures like this in a loop (also, for some reason when I use the manual option, the label selection figure is blank so it is a challenge to select the contour lines). I am using MATLAB 2020a. Thank you!

        contourf(T,H,P,40,'edgecolor','none'); 

        C=caxis;
        caxis([C(1),C(2)]);
        col = cmocean('matter',n_elem);
        colormap(col);
        cb = colorbar;
        hold on
        
        [c,h]=contour(T,H,D,10,'w');
               
        h.LevelList=round(h.LevelList,1);
        clabel(c,h,'LabelSpacing',1500,'FontSize',13,'color','white');
        axis ij
       
        h.LineWidth = 1.25;
        set(gca,'XDir','reverse');

Answer 1

[Kelly Kearney]

I've used the FEX function gclabel in the past to do this sort of thing, though I haven't tested it in any recent versions of Matlab. Unfortunately, Matlab's built-in contour labeling is pretty limited.