Re: [Matplotlib-users] LaTeX matplotlib Bug?

[Andre' Walker-L. <wal...@gm...>]

that also doesn't work.  The following would work (this is a LaTeX thing - not matplotlib)

r"80--120"
r"$80\textrm{--}120$"

andre



On Apr 5, 2011, at 5:08 PM, 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 <ody...@gm...> 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
>> 
>> 
>> 
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