Re: controlling format of numbers in plot labels
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg15376] Re: controlling format of numbers in plot labels
- From: Hans Staugaard Nielsen <hsn at imf.au.dk>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 03:14:41 -0500
- Organization: Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Aarhus
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- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Richard Easther wrote: > > Hi, > > I am using Display to output plots as EPS files for inclusion into a > paper I am writing using LaTeX. The problem I am seeing is that when > the numbers that label the axes include exponents (eg 1 \times 10^-12), > the EPS file produced leads to an error when I run dvips, namely: > > dvips: Font Math1Mono used in file diff1.eps is not in the mapping file. > > However, in figures without exponents in their axes the EPS figures do > not generate this error message. The "\times" does not show up in the > postscript document, so presume it is the cause of the problem. > So can anyone tell me how to make the EPS use a more "generic" font to > display the "\times"? > > Alternatively, a less general fix that would work in this case would be > to force LogListPlot (the actual function I am calling to produce the > plots) to use 10^-12 instead of 1 \times 10^-12 (for example) since, > for the plots I am making, all the prefactors are unity. > > For my own purposes this is not a problem, but I can see this causing > difficulties with the journal and the Los Alamos archives when they try > to process the paper. > > Thanks in advance, > Richard Easther There is a package for LaTeX called Mathematicasym (or something like that) that lets LaTeX (and dvips) use the Mathmatica fonts. Hans