Ah, sorry about that. In the script I was using it had the closing $. In spite of the typo, Gary Ruben found the actual bug: math mode doesn't support --.
Thanks, Sean On Apr 5, 2011, at 17:08, 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 <odysseus9...@gmail.com> 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 >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Xperia(TM) PLAY >> It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming >> smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. >> And it wants your games. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev >> _______________________________________________ >> Matplotlib-users mailing list >> Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
