setting the scale of the Y axis

In the above image, I'd like to change 10^1 to a more beautiful way, like 10_superscript(1).

Can anyone help me?

Thanks,

Zhong

Answer 1

[the cyclist]

I'm confused. MATLAB doesn't normally do that, does it? Do you see "beautiful" exponents when you run this code?

x = 10.^(3*rand(100,1));
y = 3*rand(100,1);

figure
plot(x,y,'.')
set(gca,'XScale','log')

Also, it is is very strange that your y-scale runs

10 100 0.4 0.5, etc

Were those labels entered manually?

EDIT after zhang commented:

I think I better understand now. You want to manually enter tick labels and have them interpreted as LaTeX would. According to this support solution

http://www.mathworks.com/support/solutions/en/data/1-5HAF0I/

that is not supported, but there is a workaround.

You might also find something in the File Exchange.

[zhang]

Yes, I manually set them to 10^1 and 10^2

[the cyclist]

I edited my answer since I think I have a better understanding of what you are trying to do.