On 09/17/2010 08:57 PM, Joey Richards wrote: > 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) > FWIW, Bitstream Vera Serif (at least the one distributed with matplotlib) does have the minus sign (at codepoint U2212), so I don't think it's the fault of the font. I'm on Linux and don't have Apple's Times or Times New Roman, so I can't verify those.
This sounds like a bug in the Mac OS-X backend in how it's handling Unicode characters -- though that doesn't explain why the sans-serif font is working. Do you have any customizations related to fonts in your matplotlibrc file? Mike -- Michael Droettboom Science Software Branch Space Telescope Science Institute Baltimore, Maryland, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization is moving to the mainstream and overtaking non-virtualized environment for deploying applications. Does it make network security easier or more difficult to achieve? Read this whitepaper to separate the two and get a better understanding. http://p.sf.net/sfu/hp-phase2-d2d _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
