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Re: Beyond 7-bit ASCII [message #40730 is a reply to message #40729]

Mon, 30 August 2004 09:25

Karl Schultz
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Registered: October 1999

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"Michael Wallace" <mwallace.no.spam@no.spam.swri.edu.invalid> wrote in
message news:10ivav36982atbd@corp.supernews.com...
> Is it possible to somehow reference characters in the 128 - 255 of a
> font table? I'm looking for an object graphics way to do this, not
> direct graphics if that matters.
>
> Also, is it possible to switch fonts with in an IDLgrText object? It
> appears that one and only font can apply to a text object at a time.
> I'd like to have a string that's normal English except for a couple
> Greek symbols in the middle. How can I do this? TIA,
>

This example combines the two using object graphics:

IDL> oText = OBJ_NEW('IDLgrText', "I will !6do!X it ma!Z('F1'x)ana",
/ENABLE_FORMATTING)
IDL> xobjview, oText

!6 switches to complex roman and !X gets you back to the entry font.

Karl

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		Re: Beyond 7-bit ASCII By: David Fanning on Mon, 30 August 2004 10:47
		Re: Beyond 7-bit ASCII By: Karl Schultz on Mon, 30 August 2004 10:40
		Re: Beyond 7-bit ASCII By: David Fanning on Mon, 30 August 2004 09:42
		Re: Beyond 7-bit ASCII By: Karl Schultz on Mon, 30 August 2004 09:25
		Re: Beyond 7-bit ASCII By: David Fanning on Mon, 30 August 2004 07:16
		Re: Beyond 7-bit ASCII By: Mark Hadfield on Sun, 29 August 2004 15:30

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