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TeX-like format request $\hat \sigma$ [message #36130] Sun, 24 August 2003 19:23
Richard French is currently offline  Richard French
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I'm trying to make a sigma with a hat (circumflex) on top using hardware
fonts in PostScript. I usually try to use textoidl() for tasks like this,
but textoidl() does not understand \hat.

In regular TeX, one would do $\hat \sigma$ but that fails here:

Following the presciption in Liam's book (pp.255-256 - thanks, Liam!):

Set_plot,'PS'
Font=0
Text=textoidl('\hat \sigma'',FONT=Font)
Print,text

\hat !Ms!X

Thanks for any hints on this.

Dick French
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