Re: Make Gnuplot using the mathematical minus sign

[Philipp K. J. <ja...@ie...>]

On Tue, 27 Jan 2015 15:53:13 -0800
Ethan A Merritt <sf...@us...> wrote:

> On Tuesday, 27 January, 2015 15:33:15 Philipp K. Janert wrote:
> > 
> > [snip]
> > 
> > In that spirit (and sorry for hijacking your
> > posting): I noticed that the %h and %H conversion
> > specifiers use an 'x' (letter x) and a '*' (asterisk)
> > to form numbers like 3.1 x 10^4.
> > 
> > It would be lovely if they used the "multiplication
> > sign" (U+00d7) and the dot operator (U+22c5 - or
> > alternatively U+00b7) instead.
> 
> gnuplot does in fact use a multiplication sign (U+00d7)
> if the encoding permits.  That covers almost all linux

Well, if I do:
	set t wxt font "Times"
	plot [:20] exp(x)
then the ytic labels look very much like an 'x', 
not like the multiplication sign.

Is this a font problem (substituting 'x' if
no glyph for U+00d7 is available)? But I 
thought that fontconfig will supply another
FONT if necessary, but not substitute a
different CHARACTER.

> systems since the default encoding is UTF-8.  MSWin encoding
> CP1252 uses the symbol 0xd7, which I think is the same?
> I'm not sure what the default encoding is on OSX.
> The LaTeX terminals use \\times or \\cdot.
> 
> 	Ethan
>