How to create a Matlab symbol composition ∆t?

Question

I'd like to create a single symbol which is contains a delta "∆" and a t. For visualisation purposes i use Matlab Live Script.

Combining several latin letters is easy done by:

sym('dt')

But these either result in an exception or don't do a conversion:

sym('Delta t')
sym('Deltat')

The workaround to multiply two symbols does not work in all cases:

sym('Delta')*sym('t')

(sym('Delta')*sym('t'))^2

However, if i square the symbol, i'd like to have this behavior:

sym('dt')^2

But it should contain the delta symbol:

Answer 1

The answer is no, you cant use non-ASCII for variables in MATLAB. This means no \Delta, no \epsilon, or any other non-standard chars.

You can generate the LaTeX representation of the results, and then print them either in text in MATLAB or in your favourite LaTeX editor with the function latex