How can I add subscripts, superscripts or Greek characters to my tick labels?

Hello,

*How do you write Greek characters in XTickLabel?

*How do you subscript and superscript Greek characters in XTickLabel?

Answer 1

[Jan]

You find a lot of solutions in the FileExchange, e.g.:

• http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/42137-fixxticklabels-automatically-convert-xticklabels-to-multiple-line-format
• http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/27010-pilabels (not exactly what you need, but a demonstration how to insert Pi in the ticks)
• http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/23841-format-tick-labels-extended
• http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/15986-format-tick-labels

Simply search for "tick label" in the FileExchange for much more solutions.

Btw, it is recommended to search in the internet and especially the FEX before posting a question. You find many ready solutions there and save the time for typing the question and waiting for the answers.

[Lukas]

Sorry, but saying he should "search the internet" before posting a question is not really fair in this case. There is no obvious way to solve this problem tht you can find on the internet to this. The only solution is a FEX-file which is also far from straightforward to use.

This is IMHO a serious shortcoming of MATLAB!

[Susav Pradhan]

hi what is the answer...for ticklabels. Even for me

xticklabels({'\alpha','\beta'})

Does not work?

[Walter Roberson]

Susav Pradhan

xticklabels({'\alpha','\beta'})

should work on any release new enough to have xticklabels(), which is R2016b or newer.

However, for it to work,

ax = gca;
ax.TickLabelInterpreter

must be 'tex' (which is the default.) In particular if TickLabelInterpreter is 'latex' then you would need

xticklabels({'$\alpha$','$\beta$'})

It is also possible to set the TickLabelInterpreter differently for each axes:

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

[Bhargav]

bro ist change

[Walter Roberson]

@Bhargav Rane

I just re-tested xticklabels() together with setting TickLabelInterpeter, and it still workse.