Greek symbols (esp. µ) not italic

I want to use the greek "mu" to be displayed non-italic. Example: ylabel('c [\mu mol/l]')

Is there any easy solution to this problem?

Answer 1

[Mattias Flygare]

Comments that suggest using unicode mu and tex interpreter do not always offer a good solution. For many reasons, one might have to use latex interpreter, and a solution for upright mu within the latex interpreter is still needed, as the unicode mu is not supported there.

My workaround was to use the latex interpreter to set the text, but with a space instead of the mu, and then insert the mu with tex interpreter "manually" where the space is. Needless to say this solution is not ideal...

[Jérôme]

Could you please detail how you "insert the mu with tex interpreter "manually" where the space is" after having inserted the text with the latex interpreter?

Thanks

[Mattias Flygare]

I believe I used the text command together with the tex interpreter and then trial and error to find the correct x and y coordinates to place the mu in the space I previously left for it. Hope it helps!

Answer 2

[Kenneth]

Simply copy past the mu "µ" in your text like >> ylabel('c [µmol/l]') works perfectly fine in Matlab 2016a

[Jiarui Kang]

works suprisingly well!

Answer 3

[Sean de Wolski]

Use the 'tex' interpreter instead of the latex one:

>> xlabel(['c_{O2} [',char(181),'mol/l]'],'Interpreter','tex');

[lee]

Thank you for your replies, but still it doesn't solve the underlying problem that you can't use the latex interpreter with non italic greek symbols.

From your answers I have implemented this workaround since I wanted the variable to be italic and the rest to be "normal":

ylabel(['\it{c}\rm{_{O2}} [',char(181),'mol/l]']);

Answer 4

[Star Strider]

See if replacing ‘\mu’ with char(181) does what you want. (This applies to US-ASCII character maps. If you have a different one, you may have to search for it.)

[lee]

This solves the problem stated above, but now I would like to set the Interpreter to 'latex'.

Solution with 'tex': ylabel(['c[',char(181),'mol/l]']) -> works

Solution with latex: ylabel(['$c_{O2}$ [',char(181),'mol/l]'],'Interpreter','latex'); -> doesn't work

The second approach is not working since the latex interpreter can't read the µ.

Is there any other solution to this modified problem?

[Star Strider]

I haven’t used LaTeX in years, so I had to go searching. It seems that according to the latest documentation, in LaTeX, \mu also produces an italicised symbol.

My suggestion: Go with Tex and char(181).