Thread Subject: Interpreter latex corrupted

Hi,

the following problem occured for me using a plain install
of Matlab2007b under linux (Suse 10.1):
When switching the text interpreter to 'latex' the text
disappears in the figure and it re-appears when switching
back to 'tex'or 'none' (Renderer is Painters). When using
'latex' there is no error message on the console but nothing
is displayed in the figure at all. When exporting this to
eps, the 'latex' strings appear as garbage, meaning there
are symbols missing in the string, or all letters are at the
same position.

Example code:

figure;
text(.5,.5,'Hallo','Interpreter','latex');

When using the example from the matlab help:

text('Interpreter','latex',...
     'String','$$\int_0^x\!\int_y dF(u,v)$$',...
     'Position',[.5 .5],...
     'FontSize',16);

only the integration bounds (0,x and y) are rendered to the
figure ?!?

Is the some way to figure out what is going wrong?

Thank You, Mirko

In article <fkgdbb$81k$1@fred.mathworks.com>,
 "Mirko Maehlisch" <mirko.maehlisch.nospam@mathworks.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> the following problem occured for me using a plain install
> of Matlab2007b under linux (Suse 10.1):
> When switching the text interpreter to 'latex' the text
> disappears in the figure and it re-appears when switching
> back to 'tex'or 'none' (Renderer is Painters). When using
> 'latex' there is no error message on the console but nothing
> is displayed in the figure at all. When exporting this to
> eps, the 'latex' strings appear as garbage, meaning there
> are symbols missing in the string, or all letters are at the
> same position.
>
> Example code:
>
> figure;
> text(.5,.5,'Hallo','Interpreter','latex');
>
> When using the example from the matlab help:
>
> text('Interpreter','latex',...
> 'String','$$\int_0^x\!\int_y dF(u,v)$$',...
> 'Position',[.5 .5],...
> 'FontSize',16);
>
> only the integration bounds (0,x and y) are rendered to the
> figure ?!?
>
> Is the some way to figure out what is going wrong?
>
> Thank You, Mirko


Mirko,

I have had the same thing happen to me on Mac OS X. I have no idea what
went wrong, but I quit and restarted MATLAB and the problem went away.
Good luck!

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Doug Schwarz
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I found a number of posts in this newsgroup and elsewhere without any solutions. From those posts, it appears corrupted output from the Latex interpreter is a common issue among various Matlab versions and *nix-es.

Apparently, Mathworks has neither fixed this nor provided a tech note.

E.g., on a Linux x86-64 machine running Matlab 7.6 we have, the last command in the following script produces three "2"s in the figure instead of the desired equation.


rand('twister',100);

figure, plot(1:7,rand(1,7))

text('Position',[2,.3],'FontSize',14,'Interpreter','latex',...
'String','$$a^2+b^2=c^2$$')