How do I put an em-dash in a text object within a figure in MATLAB?

I would like to put an em-dash (long dash with no spaces) in a title or other text object within a figure in MATLAB.

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

As of MATLAB 7.0 (R14), "LaTeX" has been added as an optional interpreter for text objects in a figure.

In order to have an em-dash displayed within a figure, the "Interpreter" property of the text should to be set to "LaTeX" and the equivalent LaTeX command "\---" should be typed.

For example, to have "x-hat" displayed in the X-Label, do the following:

plot(1:10)

%An example to have "emdash" displayed as title is:

title(['This is an example for emdash' '---'],'Interpreter','Latex')

%Another example to have "emdash" displayed as text is:

text(5,5,'---','Interpreter','Latex')