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Re: subscripts and superscripts in plot labels and titles ? [message #25298]

Tue, 29 May 2001 11:14

mperrin+news
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Registered: May 2001

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Jochen Weller <jw249@damtp.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hia
>
> I just started using IDL today and encounterd the following problem.
> I would like to use subscripts and superscripts (indeces and exponents)
> in my axis labels. I can not find any instructions how to do this.
> In case it is important: I use the POSTSCRIPT (encapsulated) device.
> Thanks a lot for your help.

Check out the Tex2IDL package: http://physweb.mnstate.edu/mcraig/TeXtoIDL/ This
lets you replace IDL's ugly and unweildy control sequences with the familiar
TeX notation.

- Marshall

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Re: subscripts and superscripts in plot labels and titles ? [message #25304 is a reply to message #25298]

Tue, 29 May 2001 00:16

Martin Schultz
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Registered: August 1997

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Jochen Weller <jw249@damtp.cam.ac.uk> writes:

> Hia
>
> I just started using IDL today and encounterd the following problem.
> I would like to use subscripts and superscripts (indeces and exponents)
> in my axis labels. I can not find any instructions how to do this.
> In case it is important: I use the POSTSCRIPT (encapsulated) device.
> Thanks a lot for your help.
>
> Cheers
> Jochen
>
>
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Look for Hershey in the online help. There is an explanation how to format your output. Even though you are using ps fonts, the super- and subscripting work just the same. Example:

title='The a!Li!U2!N element'

Martin

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