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Re: weird font issue: string("305B) does not work any more? [message #61147]

Sun, 06 July 2008 18:37

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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biophys writes:

> Thanks for the comments. It simply doesn't work for both Hershey
> Vector fonts or True Type fonts. Maybe I should not mention the !
> p.font=3D0 case which is kinda irrelevant. So to clarify a bit, here's
> what works on a linux box but not on my windows xp.
> ____________________________________________________________ ____
> IDL>set_plot,'win'
> IDL>!p.font=3D-1
> IDL> XYOUTS,.1, .5, '!3Angstrom symbol:'+STRING("305B), /NORM
> ____________________________________________________________ ____
>
> It should just work according to the font section of the appendices of
> IDL API References Guide. And my current work around is to change
> STRING("305B) into !Z(00c5).

I would say it is a minor miracle that it works with
True Type fonts at all, and you would be pushing your
luck to expect more. Sounds like you found the
work-around. :-)

Cheers,

David

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		Re: weird font issue: string("305B) does not work any more? By: David Fanning on Sun, 06 July 2008 18:37
		Re: weird font issue: string("305B) does not work any more? By: biophys on Sun, 06 July 2008 16:30
		Re: weird font issue: string("305B) does not work any more? By: David Fanning on Sun, 06 July 2008 07:09

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