Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: db Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot Subject: Re: Label problem Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 10:42:31 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 09:42:31 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="41954741a654475f42b87f0a00c7223d"; logging-data="2567473"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/s4LzZzHaRdeXElpk9MNz6uUwJCgnIz7Q=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:nd5wvcMhpNnLG0FCezrHwPGTvo8= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot:4651 On 19.02.2024 20.32, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote: > Am 18.02.2024 um 14:54 schrieb db: >> I am trying to get a ylabel like the LaTeX form $i\sqrt{\tau}$. >> Without the i it's easy, '{/Symbol \326 \164}' but as soon as >> introduce the i it goes haywire. > > You forgot to show _how_ you added that 'i'. > > Nor is "goes haywire" a very enlightening description of the result. > I tried in several different places, among them '{i /Symbol \326 \164}', but I didn't want to show them all. "Haywire" obviously means that the result is garble. I think that was clear enough. But I now have the help I was after. -- Dieter Britz