Non-italic greek letters (like mu) in Latex interpreter

Hi,

is there any way to get an upright mu with the latex interpreter? What I am trying to do is

s1=sprintf('$(x,y)=(%1.1f,%1.1f) \\mu m, \\ \\bar{Z}=%d=%1.2f$', X,Y,Z,)

which I am using in a text() command for a plot and it gives an italic µ. The only solution I saw was using the tex interpreter instead, but I want the rest of the text to be in the Latex interpreter so that I can use the \bar command, so I do not think that would not work for me.

[Star Strider]

I looked through the LaTeX documentation and apparently the italicised μ is the only one available. Using ‘char(181)’ causes the LaTeX interpreter to throw an error. There are no variations or alternate characters for it that I can find.

[dpb]

Another instance in which LaTeX seems more trouble than it can possibly be worth...at least that's a viewpoint from one who no longer has to meet external publishing requirements for papers, dissertations, and the like... :)

I did find one creative individual posted a non-trivial and not terribly satisficatory workaround at https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/160673-greek-symbols-esp-not-italic?s_tid=answers_rc1-1_p1_MLT#answer_732540

[Thijs van Stralen]

https://nl.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/59111-how-can-i-get-an-upright-mu-with-latex-interpreter#answer_1226164

This should help :)

Answer 1

[Stefanie Schwarz]

Unfortunately, MATLAB's current LaTeX interpreters do not support upright Greek letters. Due to frequent requests for a non-italized \mu, we are currently considering adding \upmu support in a future MATLAB release. While our rendering infrastructure doesn't allow adding full LaTeX packages like upgreek, we are exploring the possibility of implementing individual commands. So as Stephen mentioned, readers are encouraged to contact MathWorks Technical Support to express their interest in support for specific non-italicized Greek letters.

You can consider the workarounds for the TeX interpreter that have been discussed on MATLAB Answers:

• https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/59111-how-can-i-get-an-upright-mu-with-latex-interpreter
• https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/160673-greek-symbols-esp-not-italic