Is it possible to change markers in Matlab plot function? [duplicate]

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I am trying to use matlab plot function to create a plot. However, the markers available are limited. For example:

plot(x,y,'-o')

will plot with circle markers.

However, if I want a marker with the arrow symbol or a letter, this is not possible. Does anyone know of any way to do this? Thanks!

Answer 1

Short answer : If you want custom markers, its convenient to make the plot in some other plotting software, like tikz.

Long answer :

1. If you want a simple text marker, e.g. the letter 'A', then its possible as follows (source)

   font = 'Lucida Sans Typewriter';  % choose a font
   
   m = 'A';  % choose desired character
   
   x = 0:.5:2*pi;    
   
   y = sin(x);    
   
   % Use TEXT to plot the character along the data    
   
   text(x,y,m,'fontname',font,'color','red')    
   
   % Manually set axis limits, since TEXT does not do this for you    
   
   xlim([min(x) max(x)])    
   
   ylim([min(y) max(y)])
   

2. If you want a more complicated marker, then I found an example here on stackoverflow.