Format to display accounts with negative balance

[Peter J. Puchyr]

Hello list,

Well, this is embarrassing.  I am a user who does the bookkeeping for my
small company.  GnuCash has been great, and I learned enough about it
to do what I want to do.  At some time in the past, I must have set an
option
which seems to have gotten lost on my new Windows 8.1 computer, and
I can't seem to find how to get my setting back.

On my Windows 7 machine, running GnuCash 2.6.5 with technicolor style,
for reports such as Balance Sheet, accounts with negative balance display
as -$xx,xxx.xx, which is exactly what I want.  (I am a theoretical
physicist/
engineer, and I think that the accounting convention of using brackets to
indicate negative values is brain-damaged.)

On my new Windows 8.1 computer, running GnuCash 2.6.7 or even 2.6.5,
after copying my database and the files in my .gnucash directory, the
negative
accounts display as $(xx,xxx.xx).  I can't find any setting to change this.

Would someone please point me in the right direction, for finding the option
or switch or whatever it was that I changed in the past, to allow the
display of
negative values using a minus sign?

Thanks,
Peter
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Peter J. Puchyr, M.Sc.
SpaceTime Simulation Corp