# How to display greek leters?

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-display-greek-leters/8283
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Tags:** python, vtk
**Created:** [October 29, 2021, 4:09pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-display-greek-leters/8283 "2021-10-29T16:09:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author: ![joaocqmiranda](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/joaocqmiranda/32/6641_2.png) [@joaocqmiranda](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/joaocqmiranda)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2021, 4:09pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-display-greek-leters/8283/1 "2021-10-29T16:09:48Z")

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How can I display the greek letters and keep the number of lines of the text  
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 ![image](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/1/178a38822a5ba0e910b35c43700d0140bdb9f6fa.png)  
Added a dollar signed to display the greek letters  
 ![image](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/2/22d4c9816dd97fc72a1646e1eb17ede1a6ca35a1.png)

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2021, 8:17am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-display-greek-leters/8283/2 "2021-11-02T08:17:07Z")

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Which version of ParaView are you using ?

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### Author: ![joaocqmiranda](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/joaocqmiranda/32/6641_2.png) [@joaocqmiranda](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/joaocqmiranda)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2021, 10:23am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-display-greek-leters/8283/3 "2021-11-02T10:23:21Z")

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5.9.1 windows

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2021, 10:59am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-display-greek-leters/8283/4 "2021-11-02T10:59:31Z")

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Supported in ParaView 5.10, you can try the RC from here: [https://www.paraview.org/download/](https://www.paraview.org/download/)

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### Author: ![joaocqmiranda](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/joaocqmiranda/32/6641_2.png) [@joaocqmiranda](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/joaocqmiranda)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2021, 11:29am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-display-greek-leters/8283/5 "2021-11-02T11:29:36Z")

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Thanks it worked on 5.10v!  
I just had to add dolar signe to make equation type.

 ![image](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/5/572861a26348548b523a999a58c63b86132ef12b.png)

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### Author: ![todoooo](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/todoooo/32/2819_2.png) [@todoooo](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/todoooo)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2021, 12:18am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-display-greek-leters/8283/6 "2021-11-03T00:18:56Z")

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Great to know that’s working properly now.

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2021, 6:06pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-display-greek-leters/8283/7 "2021-11-03T18:06:09Z")

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FYI you can now even format your expression much more precisely, see here:

[https://blog.kitware.com/improved-text-representation-in-paraview/](https://blog.kitware.com/improved-text-representation-in-paraview/)

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### Author: ![todoooo](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/todoooo/32/2819_2.png) [@todoooo](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/todoooo)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2021, 11:51pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-display-greek-leters/8283/8 "2021-11-03T23:51:48Z")

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Fancy!