Re: [Fwd: Re: Greek letters in plot legend]

[Carlo de Falco]

On 7 Sep 2009, at 18:04, Thomas Ilnseher wrote:

> depends on what you need to do.
>
> If you want to see it on the monitor, i can't help you.
>
> If you need it in files, I have an advise for you:
>
> octave:1> x=0:0.01:2*pi;
> octave:2> y=sin(x);
> ^^ I plot something
> octave:3> plot(x,y,'.-b;\$sin(\eta)$;');
>                          ^^ I use latex stuff for the greek letters -
> gnuplot complains

the following works fine for me with octave 3.2.2, gnuplot 4.2.5 and  
X11 display on a mac:

>> x=0:0.01:2*pi;y=sin(x);
>> plot(x,y);
>> legend('\sin(\eta)')

HTH,
c.