Underline a character in a string text

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Skander
Skander on 22 Dec 2013
Commented: Dyuman Joshi on 27 Mar 2024 at 15:45
Hi, I try to display a string containing some characters that are underlined or with a hat? Does someone know how to proceed? Thanks
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Jan
Jan on 22 Dec 2013
What does "display" exactly mean? Where? In the command window, a title of an AXES, inside a button or in the name of a figure?
Skander
Skander on 24 Dec 2013
In text(), title(), etc. Now I have the solution to get the underline but not for the bar. Thanks

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Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 23 Dec 2013
If you use text(), title(), xlabel(), etc. you can use latex which is the default interpreter.
% title('S\underline{tring} now x hat:\hat{x}', 'FontSize', 30, 'Interpreter', 'latex')
title('S\underline{tring}', 'FontSize', 30, 'Interpreter', 'latex')
I couldn't get the hat to work, but the underline worked. MATLAB admits they don't support all LATEX instructions - maybe hat is one of those.
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Skander
Skander on 24 Dec 2013
Moved: David on 27 Mar 2024 at 15:27
Thank you very much, the underline works indeed. Do you have a solution for the bar (a dash over a character, to replace the hat)? Thanks
Dyuman Joshi
Dyuman Joshi on 27 Mar 2024 at 15:45
You can use \bar or \overline - the length of the dash is different.
text(0.5, 0.5, 'This is a bar over x - $\bar{x}$', 'Interpreter', 'latex')
figure
text(0.5, 0.5, 'This is a bar over x - $\overline{x}$', 'Interpreter', 'latex')

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