Slightly separate overlapping lines on categorical variable line plot

I am attempting to create a line chart with a categorical y-axis and a numerical x-axis. I would like to separarate the blue and red line slightly above/below to be able to compare the two lines. The lines need to be close enough that they clearly belong to the corresponding name.

repex_table = table();
repex_table.name = string(["a", "b", "c"])';
repex_table.min1 = [1, 2, 3]';
repex_table.max1 = [5, 6, 7]';
repex_table.min2 = [4, 5, 6]';
repex_table.max2 = [9, 10, 11]';

% Create Figure
figure; 
hold on;

for i=1:height(repex_table)
    x = [repex_table(i,:).min1, repex_table(i,:).max1];
    x2 = [repex_table(i,:).min2, repex_table(i,:).max2];
    y = categorical([repex_table(i,:).name, repex_table(i,:).name]);
    line(x, y, 'color', 'b')
    line(x2, y, 'color', 'r')

end
hold off;

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

You do not have many options:

• you could convert the categorical y to numeric so that you could add numeric offsets
• you can use axes() to add a second axes to draw the other line in, perhaps making the second one numeric
• you can use yyaxis to add a second axes to draw the other line in, perhaps making the second one numeric
• you could create a lot of categories in your categoricals, like a, a_05 a_10 a_15 a_20 and so on, and give the second y line the "next" category up from what it would normally be, and use yticks() to control which ones are labeled on the axes