MaplePrimes - answers and comments on Question, Plot: make the label of one of the axes as a Greek letter, and label of another axe as an English word

sure

pagan — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 06:48:59 Z

It is not so hard to accomplish if you forget about using the SYMBOL font and instead use Maple's Standard GUI instead of the Classic GUI. All of these produce a Greek lowercase single-letter beta and Roman xi (differing according to whether you want upright or italic), entered as 1D Maple Notation in a Worksheet in the Standard GUI.

plot(sin(beta),beta=0..1,labels=[beta,"xi"]);
plot(sin(beta),beta=0..1,labels=[beta,`xi `]);
plot(sin(beta),beta=0..1,labels=[beta,`#mo(xi)`]);

Of course, if your vertical axis label is not the name of a Greek letter then you don't need to quote it or do anything special at all. Only the name of the Greek letter will be typeset specially. eg,

plot(sin(beta),beta=0..1,labels=[beta, hello]);

printing the Greek xi

PatrickT — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:07:42 Z

Maple 15 / Windows 7-64 / Standard GUI.

pagan, xi doesn't print as intended here. I'm assuming xi is the Greek letter, yes?

This may be related to recent discussions about broken plot functionalities in Standard GUI.

I found the following works:

plot(sin(beta),beta=0..1,labels=[beta,typeset(`xi`)]);

also in Classic

Alejandro Jakubi — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 07:30:15 Z

All these examples work fine in the Classic GUI using the maplet driver.

more complicated examples

PatrickT — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:15:36 Z

if you want something with subscripts:

plot(sin(beta),beta=0..1,labels=[typeset(`#msubsup(mi("sigma"),mi("xi"))`), typeset(`#msubsup(mi("xi"),mi("A"))`)]);

right goal?

pagan — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:14:44 Z

The submitter asked that the vertical axis label be in the English alphabet, not the Greek one. To attain the opposite of what was asked, for the vertical axis, simply labels=[beta,xi] would suffice.

I used xi in the example to show that some extra effort might be needed to force the names of Greek letters to be shown using the English language.

forcing Greek as Latin

PatrickT — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:46:41 Z

@pagan

I see, I hadn't understood what you were doing.