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Sun symbol (again!) [message #64410]

Sun, 21 December 2008 15:32

Michael Williams
Messages: 17
Registered: December 2008

Junior Member

Has anyone made any progress with getting a circular, typographically
correct sun symbol using IDL? This is the last post on the issue, and
I agree with its authors that the solutions from 2004 and 1997 are not
satisfactory.

On 11 Apr, 04:49, "jsch...@gmail.com" <jsch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to make a plot with a nice sun symbol.
>
> It's been a few years since we had this discussion, and I was hoping
> perhaps someone has some new insight.
>
> I've read the newsgroup discussions from '04 and '97 and wasn't
> particularly thrilled with any of the solutions.
>
> Here are the things that won't / don't work for me.
>
> 1) TeXtoIDL doesn't know \odot.
>
> 2) sunsymbol.pro gives something unsatisfactory
>
> http://web.mit.edu/jschwab/Public/sunsym.png
>
> 3) The solution that initially seemed most inline with what I want was
> modifying my ttfont.map and using the marvosym font. I don't find this
> satisfactory because it's not a permanent solution since I don't want
> to modify my ttfont.map each time and because I don't even approve of
> the way it looks. (It's not symmetric!)
>
> http://web.mit.edu/jschwab/Public/marvosym.png
>
> What I'm left with is manually positioning the vector font symbol '!9!
> Z(6E)!X'. It will work and gives me something that's not bad looking.
> Unsurprisingly though, I find it rather unsatisfying.
>
> If anyone has a better / more flexible solution, I'd love to hear it.

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		Sun symbol (again!) By: Michael Williams on Sun, 21 December 2008 15:32
		Re: Sun symbol (again!) By: jschwab@gmail.com on Mon, 29 December 2008 13:51
		Re: Sun symbol (again!) By: pgrigis on Mon, 05 January 2009 06:47
		Re: Sun symbol (again!) By: David Fanning on Sun, 28 December 2008 13:53
		Re: Sun symbol (again!) By: Michael Williams on Sun, 28 December 2008 09:19
		Re: Sun symbol (again!) By: David Fanning on Tue, 23 December 2008 19:15
		Re: Sun symbol (again!) By: David Fanning on Tue, 23 December 2008 18:53

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