From help-request at octave dot org Wed Oct 26 19:49:28 2005
Subject: superscript, subscript, Greek characters in plot labels?
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Ron Crummett <rcrummett at uidaho dot edu>
Cc: help at octave dot org
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 20:49:18 -0400

On 26-Oct-2005, Ron Crummett wrote:

| Is it possible to get nicely-formatted titles and labels for plots like
| in MATLAB?&nbsp; If I want a title to read "y = x<sup>2</sup>" I can type in
| "title('y = x^2')" and it will output it as described before, or if I
| want a Greek character, say <font face="Symbol">w<font
|  face="Times New Roman">, I can type "\omega" like in LaTeX</font></font>.&nbsp;
| Is there some way to do this in Octave?&nbsp; If so, how?&nbsp; Thanks.<br>

Yes.  You can use gnuplot's epslatex (or pslatex) terminal (works best
if you are using the figures in a LaTeX document).  Or you can use the
enhanced option for the PostScript terminal.

For help, start gnuplot (at the shell prompt, outside of Octave) and
type

  help set term epslatex

or

  help set term postscript enhanced

jwe



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