Exasperating decimal symbol discussion!

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Tue, 04/14/2015 - 04:38 am

Dear Community,

I have to file a report in German where the tick labels in the graphs "obviously" have to use a comma as decimal symbol.
I managed to change the decimal symbol to a comma in "Miscellaneous Settings" and, e.g. in tables, it is displayed accordingly.
However, if I plot those waves, the tick labels use a dot as decimal symbol.

Any suggestions?

Cheers,
Markus
I believe that this convention follows the language/location setting of your computer. You could change the decimal separator globally for your report then change back after completing/printing your report.

On win7 you will find this on the control panel > Clock, Language and Region> Region and Language > Formats Tab > Additional Settings Button.

Hope this helps. There may also be a solution within Igor, but this should get you there as well.

April 14, 2015 at 05:31 am - Permalink

Hi jtigor!

Thank you for your help.
In the global settings of Windows the region is already set to German and accordingly the decimal symbol is also set to comma.
As a try, I changed them to English (US) and manually set the decimal symbol to comma in case Igor takes its settings as defined in the US language formats, but it didn't do the trick.

I am still lost and tend to export the figures in an editable format in order to change the dots manually into commas ...
Please tell me I won't have to resort to that!

Thanks!

April 14, 2015 at 06:24 am - Permalink

MarkusG wrote:
In the global settings of Windows the region is already set to German and accordingly the decimal symbol is also set to comma.
As a try, I changed them to English (US) and manually set the decimal symbol to comma in case Igor takes its settings as defined in the US language formats, but it didn't do the trick.


Instead of just giving advice, I went back and tried it. I found that manually setting the decimal symbol in the control panel was reflected in tables but not graphs. Also this will work for tables only if the miscellaneous setting for tables for Decimal Separator is set to "Per System Setting."

Sorry for the inaccurate advice.

April 14, 2015 at 10:20 am - Permalink