How do I draw an en dash in MATLAB 7.2 (R2006a) using the TeX interpreter?

I am trying to write text within a figure, and I need to be able to differentiate between a hyphen and an en dash (hyphen being slightly shorter).

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

You can use the ASCII codes for the specific type of dash you would like to display in the call to the TEXT function. For example,

plot(1:10);

% This will draw a hyphen
h1 = text(2,2,['Test-example']);
 
% This will draw an en dash
h1 = text(2,4,['Test' char(8211) 'example']);
 
% This will draw an em dash
h1 = text(2,6,['Test' char(8212) 'example']);

Please refer to the following page to see numeric codes for the common dashes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash