Re: Greek letter "mu" printed as infinity in pdf

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

--- On Thu, 2013/3/21, Forrest Gasdia  wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I want to use the Greek letter mu in an octave plot title. The plot gets 
> printed to a pdf but in the pdf the mu is actually an infinity symbol. I also 
> try to print a lower case sigma and it displays properly. Here is a minimum 
> working example which includes everything I think might be relevant (a pdf of 
> the output is also attached):
> 
> #MWE
> 
> clear all;
> 
> set(gcf, 'renderer', 'painters'); figure(gcf);
> set(0,"defaultaxesfontname","Helvetica"); 
> set(0,"defaulttextfontname","Helvetica");
> 
> A = rand(50,1);
> 
> #Create histogram of each plot
> clf ();
> 
> hist(A,25);
> str = sprintf("\\mu=%.4f, \\sigma=%.4f",mean(A),std(A));
> title(str);
> set(gca, 'xtick', [0:.1:1]);
> 
> print -dpdf test_plot;


In my system (win7 64bit),  "mu" printed as "mu" in pdf as expected in the 
attachment file. The Pdf viewer is Adobe Reader X.

I think that problem lies in font setting in your system but not octave.

Regards

Tatsuro