MATLAB: En-dash problem

Question

Hello.

I'm trying to get an en-dash in between my SPL sub 1 and SPL sub 2 texts in xlabel, but everytime I do it doesn't work. It just gives me the normal hyphen –

I tried using 'Interpreter', 'latex') but that just messes everything up.

This is what I have: For this code matlab only gives me a hyphen between my two SPL values

xlabel('\bfSPL_{1} - \bfSPL_{2}','FontSize',12, 'FontAngle','italic')

I got the en-dash with help from per isakson; however, is there a way to make the en-dash also bold?

This is a pic of what it looks like:

Thank you for the help.

Answer 1

See http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/54-