Re: [Matplotlib-users] Tick formatting

2009-01-07 Thread Paul Novak
I don't think this is a regression; I guess what I was looking for was an rcParam or a kwarg to set useMathText. Would it make sense to set useMathText=True by default? Thanks, Paul Michael Droettboom wrote: > I think this is just historical, since matplotlib never used to rely on > having pro

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Tick formatting

2009-01-07 Thread Michael Droettboom
I think this is just historical, since matplotlib never used to rely on having proper Unicode character rendering in all backends. (And displaying a multiplication symbol, rather than just * or x requires non-ascii). I believe that is no longer a problem these days, so we could change it to d

[Matplotlib-users] Tick formatting

2009-01-07 Thread Paul Novak
Hello, Using the following simple script, the scientific notation used on the y-axis is missing a multiplication symbol, as seen in the figure. My matplotlibrc file consists of backend : GTKAgg and I am using SVN r6760. I found this when I was trying to change the ScalarFormatter to ha