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-====== Typography in Text Labels ======+====== Advanced Typography Features ======
  
-MagicPlot provides accurate typography in text labels and axes labels.+MagicPlot provides accurate typography in text labels and axes labels. You may toggle some features in 'Typography' tab of MagicPlot Preferences. 
 + 
 +{{:prefs-typogr.png?nolink|Typography tab in MagicPlot Preferences window}}
  
 ===== Ligatures Support ===== ===== Ligatures Support =====
-MagicPlot supports English [[wp>Typographic_ligature|ligatures]] in text labels. If you type 'fi', 'fl', etc., those symbols will be shown with ligature glyphs when you exit edit mode.+MagicPlot supports Latin [[wp>Typographic_ligature|ligatures]] in text labels. If you type 'fi', 'fl', etc., those symbols will be shown with ligature glyphs when you exit edit mode.
  
-|  {{:ligatures1.png|}} Editing mode  | +|  {{:ligatures1.png?nolink|}}  | Edit mode  | 
-|  {{:ligatures2.png|}} The result  |+|  {{:ligatures2.png?nolink|}}  | Result  |
  
-MagicPlot supports these ligatures:+MagicPlot supports at least the following ligatures:
  
   * ''fi'', ''fl''   * ''fi'', ''fl''
   * ''ff'', ''ffi'', ''ffl''   * ''ff'', ''ffi'', ''ffl''
  
-Ligature glyphs are included only in some fonts. MagicPlot will display ligatures only if these glyphs are included in used font. +Not all fonts contain ligature glyphs. MagicPlot displays ligatures only if the glyphs are included in used font. 
-You can toggle ligatures in MagicPlot preferences.+You can turn the ligatures off in MagicPlot preferences.
  
-===== Some other Special Characters ===== +===== Mathematical Symbols in Axes Labels ===== 
-MagicPlot can automatically convert these character sequences to special symbols: +The numbers in [[wp>Scientific_notation|scientific notation]] need two special characters if you want the typography to be accurate: minus sign and multiplication sign. Many graphing software applications which use simplified typography use letter 'xand [[wp>Hyphen-minus|hyphen-minus]] (-) in numbers instead of typographically correct special charactersThis simplified typography was mainly used in old applications which do not support [[wp>Unicode]].
-  +
-  * ''<nowiki>--</nowiki>'' -> [[wp>en_dash|en dash]] +
-  * ''<nowiki>---</nowiki>'' -> [[wp>em_dash|em dash]] +
-  * ''<nowiki>...</nowiki>'' -> [[wp>ellipsis]]+
  
-You can toggle this option in MagicPlot Preferences.+MagicPlot can use either correct symbols (default) or simplified. You can change this option in MagicPlot Preferences. 
  
-===== Mathematical Symbols in Axes Labels ===== +==== Minus Sign ==== 
-The numbers in [[wp>Scientific_notation|scientific notation]] need two special characters if you want the typography to be accurateThese two characters are minus sign and multiplication signMany graphing software applications which use simplified typography use letter 'xand [[wp>Hyphen-minus|hyphen-minus]] (-) in numbers instead of typographically correct special characters. Simplified typography was mainly used in old applications which do not support Unicode.+Various minus-like characters are used in different cases and have different height and length. The height and length of minus sign are equal to those of plus sign and correspond to the size of digits in the fontHere is a comparison of these characters
 + 
 +{{:minuses.png?nolink|Plus and minus signs}} 
 + 
 +When you edit some text, keyboard minus key enters hyphen-minus characterThe correct minus character can be typed in text label by pressing ''Ctrl+M, -'', see [[http://magicplot.com/wiki/special_symbols#inserting_special_symbols_in_text_label|Inserting Special Symbols]] for details.
  
-MagicPlot can use either correct symbols or simplified. You can change this option in MagicPlot Properties+==== Multiplication Sign ==== 
 +In different languages, multiplication signs differ. In most cases you have to use either '·' or '×' sign. You also can specify any special character or character sequence, for example enter spaces before and after multiplication signs.
  
-|  {{:mult-chars-num.png|}}  | [[wp>Multiplication_sign|Multiplication sign]] (U+00D7) \\ Correct [[wp>Plus_and_minus_signs|minus sign]] (U+2212)  +|  {{:mult-chars-num.png?nolink|}}  | [[wp>Multiplication_sign|Multiplication sign]]  \\ Correct [[wp>Plus_and_minus_signs|minus sign]]   
-|  {{:dot-chars-num.png|}}  | [[wp>Middle_dot|Middle dot]] (U+00B7) \\ Correct minus sign (U+2212)  |  +|  {{:dot-chars-num.png?nolink|}}  | [[wp>Middle_dot|Middle dot]]  \\ Correct minus sign   |  
-|  {{:simple-chars-num.png|}}  | Simplified typography: \\ Latin letter 'x' (U+0078) \\ [[wp>Hyphen-minus|hyphen-minus]] (U+002D) instead of minus  | +|  {{:simple-chars-num.png?nolink|}}  | Simplified typography: \\ Latin letter 'x'  \\ [[wp>Hyphen-minus|hyphen-minus]]  instead of minus  |
-//'U+XXXX' refers to Unicode code point.//+
  
-The multiplication signs are different in various languages. You can use either '·' or '×' sign. You also can enter any special character sequence, for example, enter spaces before and after multiplication signs.+===== See Also ===== 
 +  * [[special_symbols]]
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