En-dash problem

Hello.

I'm trying to get an en-dash in between my SPL sub 1 and SPL sub 2 texts in xlabel, but everytime I do it doesn't work. It just gives me the normal hyphen -

I tried using 'Interpreter', 'latex') but that just messes everything up.

This is what I have: For this code matlab only gives me a hyphen between my two SPL values

xlabel('\bfSPL_{1} - \bfSPL_{2}','FontSize',12, 'FontAngle','italic')

I got the en-dash with help from per isakson; however, is there a way to make the en-dash also bold?

This is a pic of what it looks like:

Thank you for the help.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

See http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/54-

[per isakson]

>> xlabel(['\bfSPL_{1} ', char(8211),' \bfSPL_{2}'],'FontSize',12, 'FontAngle','italic') % En-dash
>> xlabel(['\bfSPL_{1} ', char(8212),' \bfSPL_{2}'],'FontSize',12, 'FontAngle','italic') % Em-dash

[JoshT_student]

Thank you for the response. I did see this post; however when I try that I get error:

Code:

xlabel('\it \bfSPL_{1}' char(8211) '\bfSPL_{2}','FontSize',12)

Error:

Also, actually I'm trying to get the line with the text(2,4) or/and text(2,6) from the link you posted.

[JoshT_student]

Thanks per isakson, they work. Is there any way I can make the en-dash bold?

[per isakson]

I think the En-dash already is bold, and that, one my screen, I cannot distinguish a bold from a normal En-dash. Replace char(8211) by 'A' to test. Maybe some other font has a bolder en-dash.

[JoshT_student]

Thanks for the idea. I tried the A test and it was bold, so the En-dash must be already bold I guess. Thanks again.