Why does my text overflow the legend window of my MATLAB figure when the TeX interpreter is off?

Why does my text overflow the legend window of my MATLAB figure when the TeX interpreter is off?

I am creating legends with quite a few underlined characters; I turned TeX interpreting off to prevent subsequent characters from being subscripted. Now my legend text overflows the legend box. For example:

figure

set(gcf,'defaulttextinterpreter','none')

plot([1 10])

legend('this_is_a_test_of_the_interpreter_set_to_none')

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

This bug has been fixed for Release 14 (R14). For previous releases, please read below for any possible workarounds:

The TeX interpreter is still used to determine the text extent before the legend is drawn. Resizing the figure window will fix the problem. Alternately, you can use the TeX interpreter and replace the TeX special characters before the string is used with LEGEND. For example:

figure

plot([1 10])

s = strrep('this_is_a_test_of_the_interpreter_set_to_none','_','\_')

legend(s)