Re: Infinity symbol

[Ben Abbott]

On May 6, 2011, at 9:57 PM, Shivakumar Jolad wrote:

> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On May 6, 2011, at 7:00 PM, Shivakumar Jolad wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On May 6, 2011, at 6:19 PM, Andy Buckle wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Shivakumar Jolad <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >> Hi,
> > >> I am using octave 4.4 .  I have been trying to get infity symbol in 
> > >> legend
> > >> of one of my plots.  I can get greek characters \alpha ,\beta etc through
> > >> symbol or latex characters.  I cant get infinity through \infty or 
> > >> {/Symbol
> > >> /245}.
> > >> Can anyone please let me know how to get it?
> > >> thanks
> > >> Shiv
> > >
> > > Odd. mingw octave 3.2.4, legend('\infty') works. Sorry, that is not
> > > helpful. Could it be your font (wild guess)?
> >
> > Works for me on MacOSX using gnuplot's x11 terminal as well. However, it 
> > does not work using Aquaterm.
> >
> > Ben
> >
> > I tried on 3-2.4 version. Still it doesn't work.
> > I am running it on linux. Does that cause a problem?
> 
> The infinity symbol works for Ubuntu as well.
> 
>        title ('\infty')
> 
> Ben
> 
> Thanks for the answers!
> Yeah, \infty works in title, xlabel and ylabel, but not in legend . 
> 
> -Shiv

This has been fixed in the developers sources. If you are able to update, this 
is fixed in version 3.4

Ben