Thread Subject:

No formatting of figure title

Hi all,

i would like to set the title of a figure using a string that contains several "_" underscores. Unfortunately, Matlab interprets these underscores in the variable to format the title in such a way that the next character following the underscore is typesetted as subscript.
Is there a way to omit this formatting step?
I would be grateful for any hints.

Thanks a lot,

Philipp

"Philipp Steffen" <philipp.steffen@imba.oeaw.ac.at> wrote in message <iau234$2sg$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Hi all,
>
> i would like to set the title of a figure using a string that contains several "_" underscores. Unfortunately, Matlab interprets these underscores in the variable to format the title in such a way that the next character following the underscore is typesetted as subscript.
> Is there a way to omit this formatting step?
> I would be grateful for any hints.
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Philipp

Hi Phillipp,
That is because the default behavior of the interpreter is TeX (which is very, very useful by the way for the scientific community). You can change this behavior by setting the interpreter to 'none':

plot(randn(100,1))
title('This is just a t_e_s_t','interpreter','none')

Hope that helps,
Wayne

 

"Philipp Steffen" <philipp.steffen@imba.oeaw.ac.at> wrote in message <iau234$2sg$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Hi all,
>
> i would like to set the title of a figure using a string that contains several "_" underscores. Unfortunately, Matlab interprets these underscores in the variable to format the title in such a way that the next character following the underscore is typesetted as subscript.
> Is there a way to omit this formatting step?
> I would be grateful for any hints.
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Philipp

Solution:
title('A_A','Interpreter','none')

Grzegorz

Thanks a lot to both of you! Thats what I was looking for.

Best,

Philipp

"Philipp Steffen" <philipp.steffen@imba.oeaw.ac.at> wrote in message <iau234$2sg$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Hi all,
>
> i would like to set the title of a figure using a string that contains several "_" underscores. Unfortunately, Matlab interprets these underscores in the variable to format the title in such a way that the next character following the underscore is typesetted as subscript.
> Is there a way to omit this formatting step?
> I would be grateful for any hints.
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Philipp

Use ' \_ ' to get rid of the subscript

so 'a_bc\_d'

would appear with subscripted b and underscore between c and d


"Philipp Steffen" wrote in message <iau234$2sg$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Hi all,
>
> i would like to set the title of a figure using a string that contains several "_" underscores. Unfortunately, Matlab interprets these underscores in the variable to format the title in such a way that the next character following the underscore is typesetted as subscript.
> Is there a way to omit this formatting step?
> I would be grateful for any hints.
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Philipp

On 11/9/2011 5:26 AM, Prasun wrote:
> Use ' \_ ' to get rid of the subscript
>
> so 'a_bc\_d'
>
> would appear with subscripted b and underscore between c and d

Don't know how old this thread is; only the response showed up here now...

That doesn't really address the question from OP -- he wanted to print
the underscore character w/o TeX interpretation.

The answer for that is to precede it with the '\' character; ie, to
print the special characters used to define the Tex strings when
Interpreter is Tex, prefix them with the backslash "\" character: \\,
\{, \} \_, \^.


If there is no need for TeX interpretation at all, one can save the
extra step by setting the 'interpreter' property to 'none'

>
>
> "Philipp Steffen" wrote in message <iau234$2sg$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
>> Hi all,
>>
>> i would like to set the title of a figure using a string that contains
>> several "_" underscores. Unfortunately, Matlab interprets these
>> underscores in the variable to format the title in such a way that the
>> next character following the underscore is typesetted as subscript.
>> Is there a way to omit this formatting step?
>> I would be grateful for any hints.
>>
>> Thanks a lot,
>>
>> Philipp