More settings for number formatting

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Hi there,
I’ve been using LabPlot for quite some time now and my plots progressively better but there are two things that I want to adjust, but I can’t figure out how:

First, when negative numbers are displayed in the plot they always use the dash (-) and not the actual minus sign (−). How can this be changed?

Second, in the preferences there is an option to change the decimal separator, but no option to change the thousand separator. In my case, I want to use a dot (.) as decimal separator and a space ( ) as thousand separator. How can I achieve this?

Thanks in advance

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At the moment it’s not possible to modify these settings. This is a very valid feature request. We’ll look into this.

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I created now Allow to control the group separator and the minus sign for numerica values. (#891) · Issues · Education / LabPlot · GitLab. This is an important topic, we’ll try to address it soon. Thank you for pointing us to it.

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Hi there, it has been some time.
Are there any updates regarding both of the issues?

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sorry for the late response here. We were quite busy with finishing the last topics for the next release 2.12 recently. We started looking now into this feature request, will try to get it into 2.12.

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@Tim_Finnegan

With the latest merge requests, we have added new options that:

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Hey, I think you meant to tag @Finn, not me. No worries.

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Oops! Sorry @Tim_Finnegan :grinning:

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Nice, thank you!!

The minus sign has not been implemented yet, right?

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@Finn Yes, the minus sign is still to be implemented.

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In the [dev] version we now use the minus sign symbol instead of the hyphen, but you can also control this behavior in the settings.

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After:

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New option in the application settings:

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