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Re: Sun symbol (again!) [message #64405]

Mon, 22 December 2008 00:06

Craig Markwardt
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Registered: November 1996

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On Dec 21, 10:57 pm, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> Craig Markwardt writes:
>> I don't get it. Is there any reason that '!Mn!X' doesn't work?
>> TEXTOIDL() is capable of making this character with '\odot', in
>> contradiction to what the poster says below (I have a version of
>> TEXTOIDL from 1996).
>
> I think it works if you don't mind Hershey fonts in
> your PostScript output. But maybe you need something
> more elegant for formal presentations.
>

OK, I get it. It's rather funny that the Postscript symbol font
doesn't even contain the pure circle glyph. At least then you could
have cobble together a sun symbol with a circle and a dot. I still
don't think that the Hershey fonts are a horrible choice.

Craig

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		Re: Sun symbol (again!) By: Craig Markwardt on Mon, 22 December 2008 00:06
		Re: Sun symbol (again!) By: anand on Sun, 21 December 2008 21:28
		Re: Sun symbol (again!) By: David Fanning on Sun, 21 December 2008 19:57
		Re: Sun symbol (again!) By: Craig Markwardt on Sun, 21 December 2008 18:16
		Re: Sun symbol (again!) By: Michael Williams on Tue, 23 December 2008 16:32
		Re: Sun symbol (again!) By: Michael Williams on Tue, 23 December 2008 16:56
		Re: Sun symbol (again!) By: Michael Williams on Tue, 23 December 2008 16:41
		Re: Sun symbol (again!) By: Michael Williams on Tue, 23 December 2008 16:34

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