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Re: Postscript font usage [message #24735 is a reply to message #24734]

Fri, 13 April 2001 07:05

Liam E. Gumley
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Registered: January 2000

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Barbara A Cohen wrote:
> I use PS fonts exclusively too, because of the nice aesthetics.
> It is a big pain to find some of the special symbols but it's
> worth it (btw how DO you get the sun symbol?). As for crossing
> platforms, how's this: I can switch into math mode to get a
> character like del or the plus/minus on my Mac G3 laptop, but
> NOT on my iMac. Nobody (including multiple tries with RSI)
> has been able to help me on this one.

I highly recommend TeXtoIDL for formatting Greek and math symbols in
PostScript and vector fonts:

http://physweb.mnstate.edu/mcraig/TeXtoIDL/

Cheers,
Liam.

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		Re: Postscript font usage By: Wayne Landsman on Fri, 13 April 2001 09:52
		Re: Postscript font usage By: Paul van Delst on Fri, 13 April 2001 07:42
		Re: Postscript font usage By: Liam E. Gumley on Fri, 13 April 2001 07:05
		Re: Postscript font usage By: bcohen on Fri, 13 April 2001 06:19
		Re: Postscript font usage By: Todd Clements on Thu, 12 April 2001 10:59

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