Hello. First, let me apologize if this has been covered---I tried to search the mailing list archives but was unable to get that to work (even queries that should have returned many hits were returning nothing).
When I plot with the MacOSX backend using a serif font, the negative signs on the axis labels show up as the "missing glyph" open squares rather than minus signs. Things that work around the problem: - disabling the unicode minus sign via axes.unicode_minus: False in the matplotlibrc file (though this obviously gives a hyphen instead of a true minus sign) - switching to a sans-serif font - switching to TkAgg or wxAgg backends - using the text.usetex option Things that don't work: - switching to a different serif font (at least among Times, Times New Roman, and Bitstream Vera Serif) I am using matplotlib 1.0 installed from the dmg file for Python 2.6 on OSX 10.6. I'm using Python 2.6.6 installed from the python.org binary distribution. For now, I can work around using a sans-serif font or different backend instead, but I'd really like to use a serif font with the MacOSX backend. Please let me know if you need any other information. Your assistance would be most appreciated, thank you. joey ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
