How do I turn off the LaTeX interpreter per line in my title within MATLAB?

Hi all,

I'm looking to have, within a title, two lines: the top one a LaTeX formated text (including subscript and a \Delta symbol), and the lower line with some text that I want to disable the formatting as it would look messy - e.g. my sample name is '14_6_520', but at the moment this would subscript the 6 and 5, as shown in the image below:

I understand that to put two lines in a plot title, it requires the following code after plot:

title({'First line';'Second line'})

The top title (this is the one I want with the formatting)

Plotting = '\Delta{H_{Irr-Uir}} vs Disp'

The lower title (this is the one I don't want to have formatted - here I would enter 14_6_520):

ID = string(inputdlg('Enter the name to ID this data with:')); %this is where, in the GUI, I'd enter the text 14_6_520

Putting these together in to a plot title with two lines would look like this:

title({(Plotting);(ID)});

but I'd like 'ID' with 'interpreter' set to 'none' to tell it I don't want the lower line to be formatted, which I thought would be achieved with this code:

title({(Plotting);(ID,'Interpreter','none')});

However this does not work. Is there a way to choose interpreter on/off (by line) within the title? Many thanks!

Answer 1

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Probably the easiest way to do what you want would be to 'escape' the underscore lines using backslashes (\) --

figure
title(["$\Delta{H_{Irr-Uir}} vs Disp$" "$14_66_20$"], Interpreter='LaTeX')      % Original

figure
title(["$\Delta{H_{Irr-Uir}} vs Disp$" "$14\_66\_20$"], Interpreter='LaTeX')      % Underscores 'Escaped'

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EDIT --

If the lines are entered with the underscores, use the strrep function to add the backslashes automatically --

numstr = '14_66_20'

numstr = '14_66_20'

numstresc = strrep(numstr, '_','\_')

numstresc = '14\_66\_20'

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