Question

Is it possible to convert the font of a matlab plot to be the same of latex fonts. For example I can modify the font of a plot by:

x = -pi:.1:pi;
y = sin(x);
plot(x,y)
set(gca,'FontName','Helvetica');

Is it possible to do the same but for latex fonts (I say latex fonts as I am not sure of the actual name of the font latex uses as its basic font).

Answer 1

For any text object you just need to set the ‘Interpreter’ property to ‘latex’. So, for example you could do

xlabel('$$\int_0^x\!\int_y dF(u,v)$$','Interpreter','latex');

For tick labels it is more difficult, though there may be files available to make it easier (example).