Re: Re: Linux Users?
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg36971] Re: [mg36928] Re: Linux Users?
- From: Bill Rowe <listuser at earthlink.net>
- Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 00:17:49 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
On 10/2/02 at 3:32 AM, kmccann at umbc.edu (Kevin J. McCann) wrote: >The FrameLabel for plots is "messed up" for the y-axis under Linux. In >particular, the y-axis label is typically rotated by 90deg so that it >reads up the y-axis. This works fine on macs and windoze, but under >linux the label runs up the y-axis; however, the letters are rotated >so that they are the same orientation as that for the x-axis. >Printouts of the NB are fine, but it looks really stupid when using a >video projector to teach or give a talk. I have mentioned this before, >and the stock answer is that "... it is a problem with X-windows...", >perhaps, but it is also a real problem with Mathematica. I personally >don't care why the label looks peculiar, just that it does and that >there is no easy workaround. For what it is worth, I have this problem on a Mac running OS 10.2.1. So, I don't think it is *just* a problem with X-windows.