Re: Octave 3.2.4 on Ubuntu 11.10 cannot output greek letters

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On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 08:39:42PM -0800, ayztj wrote:
> I use xlabel('\theta'), the output is a letter q instead of the greek letter
> theta. Anyone else has the same problem? How to solve it?
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look at the properties of either the figure or the axes: get(gcf())  or
get(gca()). 
There's somewhere a property 'interpreter', which should be 'tex' and
not 'none'. 'tex' means that Tex processes the text of your xlabel()
command. 

Another thing is that your graphics backend should support it. I know
that gnuplot can do it; other probably as well.