How to add Latex packages for the latex interpreter / how to print the euro symbol with the latex interpreter ?

Hi,

Is there a way to have the euro symbol (€) displayed on the label or title of one figure, when this string is created using the latex interpreter?

In latex, displaying € requires to add some specific package, for instance

\usepackage{eurosym}

and then, for instance in math mode, the symbol can be displayed using $\textrm{\euro}$ (at this point, I do not care about the specific font, sherif, etc.)

However, when trying the same for a figure label in matlab, for example

ylabel('$$z_{2}^{j} [\textrm{\euro}]$$','interpreter','latex','fontsize',12)

it does not work because matlab does not know of the 'eurosym' package. I looked around but could not find a simple way to include a package. Is there a simple way to do this? Alternatively, is there a simple way to get the € symbol displayed with the latex interpreter ?

I am using MATLAB R2014b on a Windows 7 computer.

Thanks in advance for your help,

Olivier

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

http://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/232055#answer_187995

If you are using R2014b or later, try char(8364) which is U+20AC . http://www.mathworks.com/examples/matlab/1126-including-symbols-in-plots-and-user-interfaces

[OlivierMegel]

Hi,

Thanks for your help, but it does not seem to work:

title(['a ' char(8364) ' b'])

and

title(['a $$\tilde{g}$$ ' ' b'],'interpreter','latex')

both work fine, but

title(['a $$\tilde{g}$$ ' char(8364) ' b'],'interpreter','latex')

gives the following error:

Warning: Error updating Text. Following is the chain of causes of the
error:

 String must have valid interpreter syntax:
a $$\tilde{g}$$ € b

Am I missing something obvious here? It looks like the latex interpreter cannot handle the € sign, even when specified as 'char(8364)'.

[Mike Garrity]

I'm afraid that the LaTeX interpreter is the one remaining part of the graphics system which doesn't yet support Unicode characters.

[OlivierMegel]

OK thanks for this answer, at least I know that there is nothing I can do (except waiting for a new MATLAB version)!