| Sun symbol (again!) [message #64410] |
Sun, 21 December 2008 15:32  |
Michael Williams
Messages: 17
Registered: December 2008
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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.
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> It's been a few years since we had this discussion, and I was hoping
> perhaps someone has some new insight.
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> I've read the newsgroup discussions from '04 and '97 and wasn't
> particularly thrilled with any of the solutions.
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> Here are the things that won't / don't work for me.
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> 1) TeXtoIDL doesn't know \odot.
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> 2) sunsymbol.pro gives something unsatisfactory
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> http://web.mit.edu/jschwab/Public/sunsym.png
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> 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!)
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> http://web.mit.edu/jschwab/Public/marvosym.png
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> 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.
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> If anyone has a better / more flexible solution, I'd love to hear it.
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| Re: Sun symbol (again!) [message #64424 is a reply to message #64410] |
Mon, 29 December 2008 13:51  |
jschwab@gmail.com
Messages: 30
Registered: December 2006
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>> 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.
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>> If anyone has a better / more flexible solution, I'd love to hear it.
I never found a more satisfactory solution than the following snippet.
plot, [0, 0], [0, 0], /nodata, $
xrange = [8, 16], xtitle = "Radius [km]",$
ytitle = "Mass [M ]", yrange = [0, 3.5], $
position = [0.10, 0.15, 0.53, 0.95], $
xtickname = ['8', '10', '12', '14', ' ']
xyouts, 6.80, 1.96, /data, "!9!Z(6E)!X", font = -1, charthick = 3, $
charsize = 1.5
which gave me something that looked like this.
http://web.mit.edu/jschwab/Public/final_sunsym.png
Fortunately, I only had a few different plots to make.
Josiah
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| Re: Sun symbol (again!) [message #64438 is a reply to message #64410] |
Sun, 28 December 2008 13:53 |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001
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Michael Williams writes:
> I think I embedded this question in the middle of a longer post. I'd
> just like to bump it. In Postscript output, is there a way to mix
> Hershey and Postscript fonts in the same string? Failing that, can you
> mix them in the same figure?
It is not possible to mix PostScript output and Hershey output
in the same string. You can, of course, write PostScript output
in one string, and Hershey output in another string, and put
both into the same PostScript file. So one could, in theory,
put a Hershey sun symbol inside a plot title, for example, if
you constructed it correctly. In practice, it is so onerous
do get the spacing and location correct, that I don't think
anyone has bothered to try it.
Cheers,
David
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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| Re: Sun symbol (again!) [message #64475 is a reply to message #64424] |
Mon, 05 January 2009 06:47 |
pgrigis
Messages: 436
Registered: September 2007
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HI everybody,
I just wanted to mention that there is a way to
put LaTeX labels instead on postscript plots
generated in IDL.
This however requires to use an external program
after the plot is run in IDL. While it does require
quite a bit of effort, it may be useful if you want
to embed equations or esoteric symbols (such
as the Sun symbol) in your plots.
This was discussed in this group a while ago
and some smart googling should find the thread...
Ciao,
Paolo
jschwab@gmail.com wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> I never found a more satisfactory solution than the following snippet.
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> plot, [0, 0], [0, 0], /nodata, $
> xrange = [8, 16], xtitle = "Radius [km]",$
> ytitle = "Mass [M ]", yrange = [0, 3.5], $
> position = [0.10, 0.15, 0.53, 0.95], $
> xtickname = ['8', '10', '12', '14', ' ']
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> xyouts, 6.80, 1.96, /data, "!9!Z(6E)!X", font = -1, charthick = 3, $
> charsize = 1.5
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> which gave me something that looked like this.
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> http://web.mit.edu/jschwab/Public/final_sunsym.png
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> Fortunately, I only had a few different plots to make.
>
> Josiah
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