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Re: Axeslabel containing capital n

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  • Subject: [mg108429] Re: Axeslabel containing capital n
  • From: Bill Rowe <readnews at sbcglobal.net>
  • Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:40:59 -0500 (EST)

On 3/16/10 at 5:58 AM, lambaugh at gmail.com (Jim Lambaugh) wrote:


>In my plot I need to label my y-axis N, but Mathematica recognizes
>this as numerical value. How do I turn this off while plotting, so I
>can label my axis N?

Use a string to specify the label. For example,

Histogram[RandomReal[NormalDistribution[0, 1], 1000],
  AxesLabel -> {"\[Sigma]", "N"}]

>Also, I need to change the font of the N. But I guess that is easy
>as long as the above problem is taken care of (i.e. just use Style)?

Yes, Style will do what you need here.



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