Insert Degree Symbol in Axes Title

Hello

Anyone know how to display the degree symbol ° in the title on a plot? Also want to know how to display it on the top of the figure.

set (Handle3, 'NumberTitle', 'Off', 'Name', 'Slice profile for a 20^{\circ} sinc pulse ');
axis auto;title('Slice profile for a 20^{\circ} sinc pulse ');

Thanks!

Answer 1

[Thomas]

You can create any character by finding its Unicode value and converting that number into a character, using the “char” function. Then you can add that character to any character vector or string.

For example, the number 176 is the Unicode value that denotes the degree symbol. You can convert 176 to a character and add it to your text.

axes
title(['Slice profile for a 20' char(176) ' sinc pulse'])

Setting the figure title is similar, but you have to set the 'Name' property. You might want to turn the 'NumberTitle' off too.

figure('Name', ['Slice profile for a 20' char(176) ' sinc pulse'], 'NumberTitle', 'off')

The list of all Unicode characters is very large. For more information, including the numeric values of Unicode characters, see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters.

[Med_Imager]

Ha! worked! Thanks!

Answer 2

[Engenuity]

ALT + 248 does the trick using Windows OS

[William Jewell]

this is dope!!!!!!!!!

[Benjamin Kubwimana]

This is just great! Lol

[Prabhpreet Singh]

Man this one was awesome.

[Daniel Lindstedt]

not sure if that is keyboard dependent, for me I use the ASCI code ALT + 0176 on numeric keyboard....

[Walter Roberson]

https://altcodeunicode.com/degree-symbol-alt-code/

[Kenneth George]

Not sure if this will help someone in the future, but I ran across this and realized that typing the numbers using the number row on my keyboard does not work, but typing the numbers using the numpad does work. Can't tell if this is keyboard dependent, but occurs with both my laptop and desktop. Disappointing for users that don't have a numpad.

[Zayin Jarrez]

Nice trick

Answer 3

[carlo lefevre]

°C

Answer 4

[Honglei Chen]

By default, title('20^{\circ}') should work. If not, you can do

title('20^{\circ}','Interpreter','tex')

[Brian]

\circ is apparently not the same as a degree symbol. Journals sometimes object to the \circ characterization of the degree symbol.