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Re: Text in Plots [message #53520 is a reply to message #16940]

Tue, 17 April 2007 00:45

Marshall Perrin
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Registered: December 2005

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David Fanning <news@dfanning.com> wrote:
> ebertf@gmx.de writes:
>
>> I would like to know if it is possible to show more compilcated Texts
>> in XTITLE or YTITLE with the PLOT procedure, or any other Texts
>> associated with plots (title, annotations)
>> For example texts with subscipts or mixed fonts like greek letters:
>> like T_alpha
>> The simple fonts are not enough to make nice printouts....
>
> Um, yes:
>
> IDL> ? format codes
>
> Look for the "embedded in IDL strings" section.

Also do a web search for the 'textoidl' package if you want a
more user-friendly solution than the default format codes.
E.g. "!7m!X F!D!7m!X!N" vs. textoidl('\nu F_\nu')

Actually learning IDL format codes would require more brain storage
than I have left available. :-)

- Marshall

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		Re: Text in Plots By: Marshall Perrin on Wed, 18 April 2007 09:27
		Re: Text in Plots By: David Fanning on Wed, 18 April 2007 10:41
		Re: Text in Plots By: David Fanning on Tue, 17 April 2007 04:51
		Re: Text in Plots By: Marshall Perrin on Tue, 17 April 2007 00:45
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