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Re: Octave 3.2.4 on Ubuntu 11.10 cannot output greek letters
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Ben Abbott |
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Re: Octave 3.2.4 on Ubuntu 11.10 cannot output greek letters |
Date: |
Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:49:15 -0500 |
On Nov 22, 2011, at 11:22 AM, ayztj wrote:
> Thanks. I've set the interpreter to tex, but xlabel('\theta') still gives me
> a 'q'.
>
> When I was using ubuntu 11.04, the command works correctly and I got the
> right greek letters. I've recently installed ubuntu 11.10, and things start
> to get weird.
>
> "Another thing is that your graphics backend should support it. I know
> that gnuplot can do it; other probably as well."
>
> Do you mean I should install gnuplot?
Currently, only the gnuplot backend supports "tex".
The xlabel is a text object. To set its interpreter property ...
set (get (gca, "xlabel"), "interpreter", "tex")
Ben