%% Display Text Outside Axes
% This example shows how to display text outside an axes by creating a second axes for the text. MATLAB® always displays text objects within an axes. If you want to place a text description alongside an axes, then you must create another axes to position the text.
% Create an invisible axes, ax1, that encompasses the entire figure window by specifying its position as [0 0 1 1]. Then, create a smaller axes, ax2, to contain the actual plot. Create a line plot in the smaller axes by specifying ax2 as an input argument to the plot function.

fig = figure; 
ax1 = axes('Position',[0 0 1 1],'Visible','off');
ax2 = axes('Position',[.3 .1 .6 .8]);

t = 0:1000;
y = 0.25*exp(-0.005*t);
plot(ax2,t,y)

%
% Define the text. Use a cell array to create multiline text.

descr = {'Plot of the function:';
    'y = A{\ite}^{-\alpha{\itt}}';
    ' ';
    'With the values:';
    'A = 0.25';
    '\alpha = .005';
    't = 0:1000'};

%
% Set the larger axes to be the current axes since the text function places text in the current axes. Then, display the text.

axes(ax1) % sets ax1 to current axes
text(.025,0.6,descr)

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