From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Wed Dec 23 11:22:21 1998 Subject: Re: Subplot command From: Joao Cardoso To: "William H. Lipscomb" CC: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 17:21:45 +0000 William H. Lipscomb wrote: ... > Since I wrote my earlier note I've come up with two more questions, and I > was wondering if you know the answer. > > (1) Is it possible in Octave to insert text into a plot? In Matlab this > can be done with the text command: text (xcoord, ycoord, 'TEXT'). But > this command produces an error message in Octave. plplot_octave has `text' > > (2) Is it possible to use subscripts, superscripts, and Greek letters in a > key? For instance, can I label a line as x^2, but with the 2 as a > superscript next to the x so that it's not necessary to use the caret? in plplot_octave , `plot(x, y, ";x#u2;")' does what you want. Also, greek symbols are possible, although I have not tried it. Try Joao > > Thanks again, > > Bill Lipscomb -- Joao Cardoso | e-mail: jcardoso at inescn dot pt INESC, R. Jose Falcao 110 | tel: + 351 2 2094322 4050 Porto, Portugal | fax: + 351 2 2008487