Re: Ampersand in graphics text?

[Vic Norton]

> On Oct 20, 2016, at 7:51 AM, Vic Norton <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> On Oct 20, 2016, at 6:45 AM, Vic Norton <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> I would like to write bold faced
>> RWR & SCHH
>> text in a figure, but it comes out as
>> RWRSCHH
>> with the instruction
>> text(25, 18, "RWR & SCHH”, “fontsize”, 12, “fontweight”, “bold”);
>> 
>> How can I write an ampersand in an Octave figure?
> 
> 
>> On Oct 20, 2016, at 7:07 AM, Nir Krakauer <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> The & shows up for me (with Octave 4.0.3). ​Maybe you can try to add a 
>> backslash: \&
> 
> I was running Homebrew’s Octave 4.2.0-rc2 on a Mac. Now I have upgraded to 
> Octave 4.2.0-rc2_1. There is a slightly improvement in the upgrade:
>  text(25, 18, "RWR & SCHH”, “fontsize”, 12, “fontweight”, “bold”);
> now shows up as
>  RWR SCHH
> The " & “ is now interpreted as a single space. Backslash ampersand produces 
> the same result.

Problem solved. I am using "graphics_toolkit gnuplot”. The gnuplot advice
  To use the ampersand (&) symbol in labels in the
  postscript terminal you need to escape it twice: \\&
works for my version of octave. The line
  text(25, 18, "RWR \\& SCHH”, “fontsize”, 12, “fontweight”, “bold”);
reads the way I want it to.