How to fix overlapping tick labels?

I am trying to recreate the plot above. Here is what I have:

On the bottom left of my plot -273 and -200 are overlapping. Is it possible to fix it like in the original plot above by moving the just the -273 downwards?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

Not easily. You would have to remove -273 from the list of xticks, and then draw a line downwards extending from the y axes (making sure to turn clipping off for it) and text() the -273 into place.

Perhaps it would be acceptable to instead use xtickangle

[Caleb Rosenberg]

thanks got it!

Answer 2

[dpb]

Not so bad, just have to remember the trick, Walter... :)

Once you've got the ticks labeled as you have where you want them, then

xtk=xticklabels;
xtk(1)=strcat('\newline',xtk(1));       % prepend TeX command 
xticklabels(xtk)

[Walter Roberson]

Oh, that's cute -- but it does result in the first tick being a different font face than the others !

plot(2:21, rand(1,20))
xtk=xticklabels;
xtk(1)=strcat('\newline\',xtk(1));       % prepend TeX command 
xticklabels(xtk)

[dpb]

Didn't here on R2020b. That would seem a bug or something else changed is so...

Run under R2020b

[Walter Roberson]

It might be the \ before the number \newline\0 codes \0 which is probably a distinct character.

[dpb]

Indeed -- there should be only one \ in the string, \newline0, the other was a typo I didn't notice; not sure how it got there.