Re: [Matplotlib-users] unicode minus sign glyph missing with serif fonts in macosx backend

2010-10-04 Thread Tony S Yu
On Oct 4, 2010, at 3:14 PM, Jouni K. Seppänen wrote: > Tony S Yu writes: > >> This is probably unrelated, but I can't even use serif fonts on the >> MacOSX backend (it just shows up as sans-serif). I tried Times New >> Roman, Vera, and a Computer Modern unicode font that I normally use). > > I

Re: [Matplotlib-users] unicode minus sign glyph missing with serif fonts in macosx backend

2010-10-04 Thread Jouni K . Seppänen
Tony S Yu writes: > This is probably unrelated, but I can't even use serif fonts on the > MacOSX backend (it just shows up as sans-serif). I tried Times New > Roman, Vera, and a Computer Modern unicode font that I normally use). I noticed that I didn't really get Vera either, probably because I

Re: [Matplotlib-users] unicode minus sign glyph missing with serif fonts in macosx backend

2010-10-04 Thread Jouni K . Seppänen
Joey Richards writes: > The system-installed fonts all should have the minus sign, though I > don't know for sure which fonts matplotlib is using. You can find out with dtrace: start up python as usual but don't plot anything yet, then in another terminal type "ps a" to find out the PID of the p

Re: [Matplotlib-users] unicode minus sign glyph missing with serif fonts in macosx backend

2010-10-04 Thread Tony S Yu
On Oct 4, 2010, at 2:56 PM, Jouni K. Seppänen wrote: > Joey Richards writes: > >> 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. > >> I am using matplotlib 1.0 installed fr

Re: [Matplotlib-users] unicode minus sign glyph missing with serif fonts in macosx backend

2010-10-04 Thread Jouni K . Seppänen
Joey Richards writes: > 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. > I am using matplotlib 1.0 installed from the dmg file for Python 2.6 > on OSX 10.6. I'm using Python 2

Re: [Matplotlib-users] unicode minus sign glyph missing with serif fonts in macosx backend

2010-10-04 Thread Joey Richards
On Oct 4, 2010, at 6:54 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote: > 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 hi

Re: [Matplotlib-users] unicode minus sign glyph missing with serif fonts in macosx backend

2010-10-04 Thread Michael Droettboom
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 b

Re: [Matplotlib-users] unicode minus sign glyph missing with serif fonts in macosx backend

2010-10-03 Thread Daniele Nicolodi
On 18/09/10 02:57, Joey Richards wrote: > 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. Hello, I have the same problem on MacOsX 10.4 and matplotlib 1.0, but also with the defa

[Matplotlib-users] unicode minus sign glyph missing with serif fonts in macosx backend

2010-09-17 Thread Joey Richards
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 th