Re: Octave 3.2.4 on Ubuntu 11.10 cannot output greek letters

[Ben Abbott]

On Nov 22, 2011, at 11:22 AM, ayztj wrote:

> Thanks. I've set the interpreter to tex, but xlabel('\theta') still gives me
> a 'q'. 
> 
> When I was using ubuntu 11.04, the command works correctly and I got the
> right greek letters. I've recently installed ubuntu 11.10, and things start
> to get weird.
> 
> "Another thing is that your graphics backend should support it. I know 
> that gnuplot can do it; other probably as well."
> 
> Do you mean I should install gnuplot?

Currently, only the gnuplot backend supports "tex". 

The xlabel is a text object. To set its interpreter property ...

        set (get (gca, "xlabel"), "interpreter", "tex")

Ben