From: Mark on
Roy, was this problem ever resolved? I have looked into this issue a few times in the past but have never resolved it.
-Mark VanDam

"Roy Becker-Kristal" <roybecker(a)humnet.ucla.edu> wrote in message <ef5cee4.-1(a)webcrossing.raydaftYaTP>...
> Hi there,
> I am trying to print IPA phonetic fonts on a plot.
> There's a LaTeX standard for IPA fonts, so if I understand correctly,
> I should be able to print such fonts on a plot using a text object,
> with latex interpreter, and then specify the latex encoding of the
> font.
> Thus, for example, if I want to print, in position [10,8], the 'ae
> digraph' (the IPA symbol for transcribing the vowel in e.g. the
> English word 'cat', whose Latex code is \textipa{\ae}), with font
> size 10, then I should probably use the command:
>
> text ('Interpreter','latex', 'String', '\textipa{\ae}',...
> 'Position', [10,8], 'FontSize', 10);
>
> My questions are:
> 1. Is this correct?
> 2. How can make sure that MatLab's Latex interpreter is actually
> familiar with this Latex code so that it would indeed know how to
> interpret it and transform it into the desired symbol?
>
> Thanks,
> Roy.