prevent _ from subscripting with suptitle

I want to use the suptitle function (or something similar) to put a main title over a number of subplots; however, what I'd like to print has underscores in it.

For the regular title function, this works so that I can keep underscores instead of subscripting. However, this doesn't work with suptitle. Does anyone have any suggestions?

figure(1); 
suptitle(trialName, 'Interpreter', 'none');

Answer 1

[Adam Danz]

Store the handle and change the interpreter to 'none'.

h = suptitle('my_super_title'); 
h.Interpreter = 'none';

See Steven Lord's solution for matlab releases after and including 2018b.

Answer 2

[Steven Lord]

If you're using release R2018b or later, use the sgtitle function instead.

subplot(2, 2, 1);
subplot(2, 2, 2);
subplot(2, 2, 3);
sgtitle('x_1^2 + x_2^3', 'Interpreter', 'none')

Compare that with this title for the third subplot.

title('x_1^2+x_2^3')