<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Sylvestre Ledru <<a href="mailto:sylvestre.ledru@scilab-enterprises.com">sylvestre.ledru@scilab-enterprises.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Re: Scilab Mac OSX Problem</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">14 May 2012 5:15:56 PM AEST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Christopher Phillips <<a href="mailto:cjep@bigpond.net.au">cjep@bigpond.net.au</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Cc: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:users-owner@lists.scilab.org">users-owner@lists.scilab.org</a><br></span></div><br><div>Hello,<br><br>Please send the mail to <a href="mailto:users@lists.scilab.org">users@lists.scilab.org</a><br>The address you used it just for the moderator ;)<br><br>Sylvestre<br><br>On 14/05/2012 09:12, Christopher Phillips wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hello,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I have just down loaded Scilab Version 5.4.0 - alpha-1 on to my Mac, which is running OS X version 10.7.4. <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">However, I have a problem in that although I can run command line functions and programs, the Scilab Console has an odd format in that digits are separated by spaces and the number "1" appears as raised dot (rather like, but NOT the same as, an apostrophe ) for example the copyright number appears as ' 9 8 9 - 2 0 ' ', where I have used the apostrophe to indicate the dot.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The letters and words in the Console are not affected and the Editor is normal for both letters and numbers.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Do I have to set a numeric format or something else to fix this problem?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Thank you very much for helping. For your information, I am a retired lecturer in Electrical Engineering from the University of NSW, Sydney and have had many years experience with Matlab.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Kind regards,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Chris Phillips<br></blockquote><br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>