Adding additional LaTeX support for plot axis labels

Matlab supports a lot of LaTeX for figure axis labels, titles, etc, but not ALL LaTeX commands.

For example when trying to use

xlabel('$\boldsymbol{\mu}$','interpreter','latex')

I get the error:

 Warning: Error updating Text. Following is the chain of causes of
the error:

 String must have valid interpreter syntax:
$\boldsymbol{\mu}$

because it doesn't support the \boldsymbol{} command. Is there a way of fixing this by adding/installing additional LaTeX command modules or anything?

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

You can use the 'FontWeight' as a work-around in this instance, since you have only one item you want in bold:

xlabel('${\mu}$','interpreter','latex', 'FontWeight','bold')

[Oliver Dellar]

Thanks for this, and it does help in this instance, but this was just an example, there are other things I'd like to LaTeX format, such as

\xlabel('$\textbf{\textsf{x}}(t)$','interpreter','latex')

but it won't play ball with \textsf{}, etc.

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

Some of what you are trying to use is from packages not loaded for MATLAB. See http://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/241784-latex-matrix-when-publishing#answer_191856