Re: Newbie symbol font question

[Quentin Spencer]

Manojit Roy wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have recently started using Octave, and have a question of how to use
> symbol font in plot legends and axes labels, like <gplot data u 1:3
> title("delta=0")>, and <gset xlabel "alpha">. Thanks for help.
>
> Manojit
>  
If I understand correctly, you're trying to get the greek characters 
alpha and delta, which you could get by using the commands \alpha and 
\delta in MATLAB. As far as I know, gnuplot does not have the capability 
to display these characters on the screen, but you can use LaTeX 
commands to get the greek characters in some output formats, such as 
xfig. Unlike MATLAB, you would need to put "$" characters before and 
after the commands to put LaTeX into math mode. Also, because octave's 
string processing commands treat "\" as a special character, you may 
need to use "\\" instead of "\". See the recent discussion on the 
mailing list about this.

Quentin




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