How to make only some part of a y axis label italic? (in boxplot?)

How to make italic in a boxplot lable?

Is working

ylabel('{\it text123} texting (%)')

But this not working:

boxplot(y,'Labels',{'{\it text} text','FC','SD Criterion'})

Answer 1

[Sindar]

Set the tick label interpreter to tex:

ax=gca;
ax.TickLabelInterpreter = 'tex';

or

set(gca,'TickLabelInterpreter','tex')