Re: unable to get symbols in plot labels

[Ben Abbott]

On Jun 20, 2012, at 3:43 PM, bwissman wrote:

> The command: xlabel('\lambda (nm)'); results in \lambda (nm) being displayed 
> on my plot instead of the desired symbol. I am running version 3.6.1. Typing 
> the command available_graphics_toolkits results in { [1,1] = fltk [1,2] = 
> gnuplot} What am I missing? 
> View this message in context: unable to get symbols in plot labels
> Sent from the Octave - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Please type "graphics_toolkit" to determine which toolkit you are using.

Symbols are not yet available for the fltk toolkit.

For the gnuplot toolkit, you need set the xlabel interpreter to "tex".

        xlabel ('\lambda (nm)', 'interpreter', 'tex')

Ben