[Matplotlib-users] LaTeX matplotlib Bug?

[Sean L. <ody...@gm...>]

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