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Re: Displaying equations in ps output [message #47749]

Thu, 02 March 2006 08:00

David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001

Senior Member

Jonathan Wolfe writes:

> Thanks! It looks like this is much more complicated then I originally
> thought; however, I'm going to dabble in the octa and hexa formatting
> codes to see if I can figure them out. Is there a good resource to
> follow when using these?

Well there's always the famous (infamous!?) angstrom article:

http://www.dfanning.com/misc_tips/angstrom.html

Cheers,

David

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Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/

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Re: Displaying equations in ps output [message #47751 is a reply to message #47749]

Thu, 02 March 2006 07:39

vorticitywolfe
Messages: 19
Registered: January 2006

Junior Member

Thanks! It looks like this is much more complicated then I originally
thought; however, I'm going to dabble in the octa and hexa formatting
codes to see if I can figure them out. Is there a good resource to
follow when using these? Thanks again for the help.
Jon

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Re: Displaying equations in ps output [message #47753 is a reply to message #47751]

Thu, 02 March 2006 02:55

Maarten[1]
Messages: 176
Registered: November 2005

Senior Member

Jonathan Wolfe wrote:

> In regards to the post by from:
>
> greg ushomirskiy "typesetting math in IDL plots"
> Date: Fri, Oct 3 1997 12:00 am
>
> He was asking about displaying equations in ps output. The links from
> the responses are now dead, but I was wondering has there been anything
> new that has come along to do this? I know of TeXtoIDL, but that gets
> rather complicated if you want to put in some partial derivatives and
> "mean bars". Any information would be helpful. Thanks for the help!

You may want to have a look at the message-thread started by a user
called "Park" on Sun, Feb 5 2006 8:48 am. (Message ID:
<1139129303.757406.37190@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>).
The thread yields some answers that may or may not be easier than
the IDL format codes.

Maarten

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Re: Displaying equations in ps output [message #47758 is a reply to message #47753]

Wed, 01 March 2006 13:02

David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001

Senior Member

Jonathan Wolfe writes:

> In regards to the post by from:
>
> greg ushomirskiy "typesetting math in IDL plots"
> Date: Fri, Oct 3 1997 12:00 am
>
> He was asking about displaying equations in ps output. The links from
> the responses are now dead, but I was wondering has there been anything
> new that has come along to do this? I know of TeXtoIDL, but that gets
> rather complicated if you want to put in some partial derivatives and
> "mean bars".

If "uncomplicated" is what you are after, I'm afraid
you have chosen the completely wrong topic. :-(

How are your octal math skills?

I'd stick with TexToIDL if you can. Otherwise, you
are just going to have to get your hands dirty (VERY
dirty!) learning the embedded format codes. Good luck!

Cheers,

David

--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/

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Re: Displaying equations in ps output [message #47840 is a reply to message #47749]

Thu, 02 March 2006 15:13

JD Smith
Messages: 850
Registered: December 1999

Senior Member

On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 09:00:38 -0700, David Fanning wrote:

> Jonathan Wolfe writes:
>
>> Thanks! It looks like this is much more complicated then I originally
>> thought; however, I'm going to dabble in the octa and hexa formatting
>> codes to see if I can figure them out. Is there a good resource to
>> follow when using these?
>
> Well there's always the famous (infamous!?) angstrom article:
>
> http://www.dfanning.com/misc_tips/angstrom.html

By the way, users of IDLWAVE should not use the syntax "305B, but '305'OB,
which will make the syntax highlighting much happier, and is also more
consistent with the hexadecimal usage 'C5'XB.

JD

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