Is there something wrong with the LaTeX uparrow and downarrow characters on Linux?

I noticed a minor glitch in rendering a LaTeX character in the title of a figure under Linux.

Specifically, in a figure which is at least two subplots high (and in some cases, even a regular figure with only one set of axes), the LaTeX characters "\uparrow" and "\Uparrow" have slightly longer stems than "\downarrow" and "\Downarrow", respectively. Under Windows, it seems that the characters are normal.

figure

subplot(2,1,1)

plot(1:10)

title('up \uparrow down \downarrow UP \Uparrow DOWN \Downarrow')

subplot(2,1,2)

plot(1:10,sin(1:10))

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

This bug has been fixed in Release 14 Service Pack 3 (R14SP3). For previous product releases, there are no workarounds.