that also doesn't work. The following would work (this is a LaTeX thing - not
matplotlib)
r"80--120"
r"$80\textrm{--}120$"
andre
On Apr 5, 2011, at 5:08 PM, gary ruben wrote:
> Um, how about r"$80--120$" instead of r"$80--120" ?
>
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Sean Lake <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'm trying to specify a range of numbers in a particular legend using LaTeX.
>> In order to do so I'm feeding it the string: r"$80--120". The output should
>> be have an endash, "80–120", but I'm getting "80--120". This is a standard
>> feature of LaTeX ( http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Formatting ), so I
>> don't know what's going on.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sean Lake
>>
>> uname -a
>> Darwin dynamic_051.astro.ucla.edu 10.7.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.7.0: Sat
>> Jan 29 15:17:16 PST 2011; root:xnu-1504.9.37~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
>>
>> (You also have a bug on this web page:
>> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq/troubleshooting_faq.html#reporting-problems
>> , The line python -c `import matplotlib; print matplotlib.__version__`
>> should not have back-ticks)
>> /sw/bin/python2.6 -c 'import matplotlib; print matplotlib.__version__'
>> 1.0.0
>>
>> Got matplotlib via fink:
>> fink --version
>> Package manager version: 0.29.21
>> Distribution version: selfupdate-rsync Sun Apr 3 02:28:24 2011, 10.6, x86_64
>> Trees: local/main stable/main stable/crypto unstable/main unstable/crypto
>>
>> matplotlibrc file:
>> text.usetex : True
>>
>> #backend : MacOSX
>> backend : GTKAgg
>> #backend : ps
>> #backend : pdf
>>
>>
>>
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