For some reason, none of my figures properly display the axis labels set in the usual way with xlabel(‘foo’) etc. Just a small dotted outline of a box appears. Any ideas what this could be or how I could fix it?
Example screeny: https://i.stack.imgur.com/RcIh0.jpg
This can happen if you don’t have the proper fonts installed. Take a look at Missing fonts in Matlab in Fedora 10. The installation of the right fonts will depend on your OS.