untexlabel

Build a string which used with a TeX interpreter shows exactly the string as it is ...

Description

This function is useful to create a string label which use a Tex interpreter and avoid that character as "_" or "^" or "/" are iterpreted as Tex commands.

Example:
MYSTR = 'mydir\bfx_0.dat';

If you use MYSTR in a text object with the Tex interpreter activated, it will show something unexpected because "\bf" and "_" will be considered as Tex commands and will produce the relative output on the screen (see text function help for details).

If you use untexlabel(MYSTR) in the text object, than the string will be shown exactly as it is.
Furthermore you could use, for example, ['\bf',untexlabel(MYSTR)] as text string to show it all as bold font.

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 6.1 (R12.1)

[Matthew Simoneau]

Another alternative is to turn off the TeX interpreter like this:

>> text(.5,.5,'D:\Work\foo','Interpreter','none')

or

title('D:\Work\foo','Interpreter','none')

[Giuseppe Ridinò]

Try this:

  file = 'file_0_1';
  CreateStruct.WindowStyle='non-modal';
  CreateStruct.Interpreter='tex';
  msgbox(['File ',file,' not found!'],'warning','warn',CreateStruct)
  msgbox(['File \bf',file,'\rm not found!'],'warning','warn',CreateStruct)
  msgbox(['File \bf',untexlabel(file),'\rm not found!'],'warning','warn',CreateStruct)

You may note the difference among the 3 cases.

[V L]

Setting the default interpreter to 'none' can only be done for a few set of text objects, ie the axes labels and the axes' title. For example, legend and annotation texts cannot be set by this method, thus we are forced to use this fonction to do "as if" the interpreter is none.

[V L]

By setting the default interpreter, I mean set the default value for a property using the command :

set(0,'DefaulttextInterpreter','none')

This don't work for legends and annotation (perhaps others? I think for all objects that are inside axes)

[Chad Webb]

This utility works as advertised - as mentioned, only a select few text objects have the "Interpreter" property available, and this solves the case where that property is not available - I used it to properly display the underscores in a "waitbar" message. Nice work!