Re: Greek symbols in plot labels

[DGati]

Ron Crummett wrote:
> 
> Hi -
> 
> I am trying to add a label to a plot and the label is comprised of both 
> standard characters and Greek characters, for instance, "Frequency 
> between 0 and 2<pi>"  Of course, I want to use the actual character for 
> pi in the label.  This should be doable by setting my terminal type to 
> an enhanced type and issuing the command
> 
> xlabel('Frequency between 0 and 2{/Symbol p}');
> 
> However, when I do this, the entire label is displayed in Greek 
> characters and hence makes no real sense.  When I issue the command a 
> second time from the terminal it works.  But when I try issuing the 
> command twice in a script it doesn't work.  Is there something more I 
> need to do?  I know that technically this would be considered a gnuplot 
> question but it doesn't give problems in gnuplot leading me to believe 
> that the issue is somewhere in Octave-gnuplot interaction.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -Ron
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To avoid having the entire label in Greek, you can use the \ character, like
this:
xlabel('Saving rate \gamma')

This only converts gamma to the real character. However, sometimes it
doesn't recognize some characters. I keep having issues with ro...

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