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Re: Easy way to do superscripts, greek letters, etc.? [message #25738]

Thu, 12 July 2001 09:26

R.Bauer
Messages: 1424
Registered: November 1998

Senior Member

Amanda Kepley wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm migrating to IDL from Supermongo
> (http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~rhl/sm/) and was wondering if there was
> an easier way to get superscripts and greek letters than the cryptic !*
> escape sequences mentioned in David Fanning's book.
>
> I would really love it if I could just input TeX escape sequences like
> \phi (as in supermongo), but I don't know if that's even possible in
> IDL. I would settle for a some sort of character picker program. Does
> anyone know of program that would do this (or if it can be done in IDL)?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Amanda
>
> --
> Amanda Kepley
>
> "Ad Astra Per Aspera"

no problem try the tex_to_idl package

http://astron.berkeley.edu/~marc/idlshare/general/TeXtoIDL/

regards

Reimar
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Reimar Bauer

Institut fuer Stratosphaerische Chemie (ICG-1)
Forschungszentrum Juelich
email: R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de
http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg1/
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a IDL library at ForschungsZentrum Juelich
http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg1/idl_icglib/idl_lib_intro.h tml

http://www.fz-juelich.de/zb/text/publikation/juel3786.html
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read something about linux / windows
http://www.suse.de/de/news/hotnews/MS.html

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Re: Easy way to do superscripts, greek letters, etc.? [message #25740 is a reply to message #25738]

Thu, 12 July 2001 08:53

Amanda Kepley
Messages: 3
Registered: July 2001

Junior Member

On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, David Fanning wrote:

> Amanda Kepley writes:
>
>> I'm migrating to IDL from Supermongo
>> (http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~rhl/sm/) and was wondering if there was
>> an easier way to get superscripts and greek letters than the cryptic !*
>> escape sequences mentioned in David Fanning's book.
>>
>
> Ah, you don't like cryptic!? It's no fun otherwise.
> But you probably are looking for TexToIDL:
>
> http://astron.berkeley.edu/davis/idlshare/general/TeXtoIDL/

Thanks a bunch, David and Liam.

I'm a much happier camper now.

Amanda

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"Ad Astra Per Aspera"

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Re: Easy way to do superscripts, greek letters, etc.? [message #25742 is a reply to message #25740]

Thu, 12 July 2001 08:39

Liam E. Gumley
Messages: 378
Registered: January 2000

Senior Member

Amanda Kepley wrote:
> I'm migrating to IDL from Supermongo
> (http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~rhl/sm/) and was wondering if there was
> an easier way to get superscripts and greek letters than the cryptic !*
> escape sequences mentioned in David Fanning's book.
>
> I would really love it if I could just input TeX escape sequences like
> \phi (as in supermongo), but I don't know if that's even possible in
> IDL. I would settle for a some sort of character picker program. Does
> anyone know of program that would do this (or if it can be done in IDL)?

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

Cheers,
Liam.
Practical IDL Programming
http://www.gumley.com/

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Re: Easy way to do superscripts, greek letters, etc.? [message #25743 is a reply to message #25742]

Thu, 12 July 2001 08:34

david[2]
Messages: 100
Registered: June 2001

Senior Member

Amanda Kepley writes:

> I'm migrating to IDL from Supermongo
> (http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~rhl/sm/) and was wondering if there was
> an easier way to get superscripts and greek letters than the cryptic !*
> escape sequences mentioned in David Fanning's book.
>
> I would really love it if I could just input TeX escape sequences like
> \phi (as in supermongo), but I don't know if that's even possible in
> IDL. I would settle for a some sort of character picker program. Does
> anyone know of program that would do this (or if it can be done in IDL)?

Ah, you don't like cryptic!? It's no fun otherwise.
But you probably are looking for TexToIDL:

http://astron.berkeley.edu/davis/idlshare/general/TeXtoIDL/

Cheers,

David

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Phone: 970-221-0438 E-Mail: davidf@dfanning.com
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
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