From: Doug Looze on
I have two macs: an imac running OSX 10.6.4 at home; and a powermac G5 running OSX 10.5.8 at work. At home, when I add a label to the y-axis of even the simplest of figures, I'm getting a label on the figure that is reversed and the letter spacing is irregular. This does not happen on my work mac. Plotting and labeling figures was working earlier this spring on my mac at home. What could be causing this problem?
From: Doug Looze on
"Doug Looze" <looze(a)ecs.umass.edu> wrote in message <i14vg4$6ue$1(a)fred.mathworks.com>...
> I have two macs: an imac running OSX 10.6.4 at home; and a powermac G5 running OSX 10.5.8 at work. At home, when I add a label to the y-axis of even the simplest of figures, I'm getting a label on the figure that is reversed and the letter spacing is irregular. This does not happen on my work mac. Plotting and labeling figures was working earlier this spring on my mac at home. What could be causing this problem?


I've looked into the problem I'm having a bit deeper. Any figure text that's rotated (i.e., with the rotation property non-zero) rotates each letter by the correct amount, but the baseline is not rotated. Consequently, if the rotation is 90 (as in a y-axis label), each letter is displayed on top of each other. I can avoid this by changing the interpreter to be LaTeX rather than the default TeX. But, I still don't know why the display behavior has changed from this spring.

BTW, my home mac has Snow Leopard, while the Matlab is Release 14 (R2007a).