RE: unable to get symbols in plot labels

[Barry Wissman]

Ben,
Thanks for your fast response, but I still get the same result. 

The command "graphics_toolkit" returns "fltk". Would switching to gnuplot
solve this?

Thanks,
Barry

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Abbott [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 4:06 PM
To: bwissman
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: unable to get symbols in plot labels

On Jun 20, 2012, at 3:43 PM, bwissman wrote:

> The command: xlabel('\lambda (nm)'); results in \lambda (nm) being
displayed on my plot instead of the desired symbol. I am running version
3.6.1. Typing the command available_graphics_toolkits results in { [1,1] =
fltk [1,2] = gnuplot} What am I missing? 
> View this message in context: unable to get symbols in plot labels 
> Sent from the Octave - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Please type "graphics_toolkit" to determine which toolkit you are using.

Symbols are not yet available for the fltk toolkit.

For the gnuplot toolkit, you need set the xlabel interpreter to "tex".

        xlabel ('\lambda (nm)', 'interpreter', 'tex')

Ben