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Re: Text Formatting with TexToIDL [message #47569 is a reply to message #47568]

Wed, 15 February 2006 15:29

Craig Markwardt
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Craig Markwardt <craigmnet@REMOVEcow.physics.wisc.edu> writes:
> David, the problem is that the font sets and character encodings for
> the TrueType and PostScript fonts are totally different than the
> direct graphics Hershey fonts. textoidl() only knows about the
> Hershey fonts. Somebody would have to re-write a part of textoidl()
> to handle the new encodings.

But here's an interesting tidbit. The PS and TrueType symbol fonts
are close enough that one can switch to Postscript mode and get the
desired effect:

set_plot, 'ps'
str = textoidl(' \lambda_{1} (nm)', font=0)
set_plot, 'x'
text = obj_new('idlgrtext', str, ENABLE_FORMATTING=1)
xobjview, text

Major-kludge, but it suggests that a modification to textoidl() would
be fairly straightforward.

Craig

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		Re: Text Formatting with TexToIDL By: David Fanning on Wed, 15 February 2006 21:27
		Re: Text Formatting with TexToIDL By: Craig Markwardt on Wed, 15 February 2006 15:29
		Re: Text Formatting with TexToIDL By: Craig Markwardt on Wed, 15 February 2006 15:21
		Re: Text Formatting with TexToIDL By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 15 February 2006 14:29

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