.. DO NOT EDIT. .. THIS FILE WAS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED BY SPHINX-GALLERY. .. TO MAKE CHANGES, EDIT THE SOURCE PYTHON FILE: .. "gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/unicode_minus.py" .. LINE NUMBERS ARE GIVEN BELOW. .. only:: html .. meta:: :keywords: codex .. note:: :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note :ref:`Go to the end ` to download the full example code .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title .. _sphx_glr_gallery_text_labels_and_annotations_unicode_minus.py: ============= Unicode minus ============= By default, tick labels at negative values are rendered using a `Unicode minus`__ (U+2212) rather than an ASCII hyphen (U+002D). This can be controlled by setting :rc:`axes.unicode_minus`. __ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plus_and_minus_signs#Character_codes The replacement is performed at draw time of the tick labels (usually during a `.pyplot.show()` or `.pyplot.savefig()` call). Therefore, all tick labels of the figure follow the same setting and we cannot demonstrate both glyphs on real tick labels of the same figure simultaneously. Instead, this example simply showcases the difference between the two glyphs in a magnified font. .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 20-29 .. image-sg:: /gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/images/sphx_glr_unicode_minus_001.png :alt: unicode minus :srcset: /gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/images/sphx_glr_unicode_minus_001.png, /gallery/text_labels_and_annotations/images/sphx_glr_unicode_minus_001_2_00x.png 2.00x :class: sphx-glr-single-img .. code-block:: Python import matplotlib.pyplot as plt fig = plt.figure(figsize=(4, 2)) fig.text(.15, .6, "Unicode minus:", fontsize=20) fig.text(.85, .6, "\N{MINUS SIGN}1", ha='right', fontsize=20) fig.text(.15, .3, "ASCII hyphen:", fontsize=20) fig.text(.85, .3, "-1", ha='right', fontsize=20) plt.show() .. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_text_labels_and_annotations_unicode_minus.py: .. only:: html .. container:: sphx-glr-footer sphx-glr-footer-example .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: unicode_minus.ipynb ` .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python :download:`Download Python source code: unicode_minus.py ` .. only:: html .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery `_