Help on text formatting

There are some simple escape sequences you can use to get greek, italic, and formatting effects in your titles and legends.

Escape sequences

You can change fonts, adjust spacing and get special characters in your text strings by using the following escape sequences:
SequenceFunction
\ustart superscript or end subscript
\dstart subscript or end superscript
\bbackspace
\fnswitch to simple stroke font (default)
\frswitch to roman font
\fiswitch to italic font
\fsswitch to script font
\\backslash
\xmultiplication sign
\.centered dot
\AAngstrom symbol
\gxgreek character (see table below)
\mn
\mnn		graph marker n or nn (1-31)
\(nnnn)Special character nnnn (1..4 digits, see below).

Greek letters

The escape sequence for greek letters is in the form \gx. Where the x is the single character to escape.

Upper case letters are escaped to upper case greek letters. The correspondance used is:

greek letter:alphabetadeltaepsilonzetaetathetaiota
char entered:a b d e z y h i
greek letter:kappalambdamunuxiomicronpirho
char entered:k l m n c o p r
greek letter:sigmatauupsilonphichipsiomega
char entered:s t u f x q w

Special Chars

There is an enormous number of special characters available; look in the PGPLOT documentation for detailed information.

Some especially useful character codes:

CodeCharacter
0248approximate
2077aleph
2218degrees
2233plus or minus
2234minus or plus
2245proporational to
2246on the order of
2255radical
2265partial
2266del
2268integral
2269circular integral
2270infinity
2281-2290planet symbols
2401-2401large summation, brackets, etc.
2801-2932Cyrillic symbols, upper and lower case