unwanted $ signs in ylabel = string(L"\alpha", " sometext")

[aborzunov]

I want to provide some text after LaTeX string which yields unwanted $ signs around LaTeXString.
plot(randn(10), ylabel = string(L"\alpha", " sometext"))

[greimel]

In just had the same issue and found the solution in some other issue.

Use \( ... \) instead of $ ... $. This seems to work

using GR, LaTeXStrings
plot(randn(10), ylabel = L"\(\alpha \) some text")

using Plots, LaTeXStrings
plot(randn(10), ylabel = L"\(\alpha \) some text")

[ShuhuaGao]

Use \( ... \) instead of $ ... $. This seems to work

It reports "ERROR: syntax error" on my system.

julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 1.4.2
Commit 44fa15b150* (2020-05-23 18:35 UTC)
Platform Info:
  OS: Windows (x86_64-w64-mingw32)
  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8550U CPU @ 1.80GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-8.0.1 (ORCJIT, skylake)
Environment:
  JULIA_NUM_THREADS = 8

(@v1.4) pkg> status LaTeXStrings
Status `C:\Users\shuhu\.julia\environments\v1.4\Project.toml`
  [b964fa9f] LaTeXStrings v1.1.0

[heliosdrm]

In the newer versions, full LaTeX strings are supported, and the older workaround mentioned by @greimel mentioned some nearly a year ago shouldn't be used.

[ShuhuaGao]

In the newer versions, full LaTeX strings are supported, and the older workaround mentioned by @greimel mentioned some nearly a year ago shouldn't be used.

Thank you, @heliosdrm . Yes, you are right. using LaTeXStrings is enough.

However, one pitfall in mixing normal text and math expression is that \mathrm rather than \textrm (or \textrnomal) should be used. In view of the above example

I want to provide some text after LaTeX string which yields unwanted $ signs around LaTeXString.
plot(randn(10), ylabel = string(L"\alpha", " sometext"))

we should write L"\alpha \mathrm{sometext}".