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Re: Greek Symbols in Plot Annotations [message #69293 is a reply to message #69283]

Mon, 11 January 2010 05:44

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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wlandsman writes:

> Those of us who know LateX have probably been using the TeXtoIDL
> package for this task. (The original version is at
> http://physweb.mnstate.edu/mcraig/textoidl/ ; a slightly improved
> package is available in the excellent Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)
> library http://code.google.com/p/sdssidl/ ). One finds the string
> for the Greek alpha symbol as string = textoidl('\alpha'). But I
> don't believe that TeXtoIDL handles true-type fonts, so greek.pro
> should still be useful even for TeXtoIDL users -- thanks.

Maarten Sneep gave me a great suggestion this morning. As
an alternative to setting the CAPITAL keyword to getting
the uppercase Greek letter, you can now also capitalize
the first letter of the Greek name. So, before to get
a capital letter you did this:

Print, Greek('omega', /CAPITAL)

But now you can also do this:

Print, Greek('Omega')

The program is here:

http://www.dfanning.com/programs/greek.pro

Cheers,

David

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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: Greek Symbols in Plot Annotations By: David Fanning on Tue, 12 January 2010 08:30
		Re: Greek Symbols in Plot Annotations By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 12 January 2010 07:17
		Re: Greek Symbols in Plot Annotations By: David Fanning on Mon, 11 January 2010 15:32
		Re: Greek Symbols in Plot Annotations By: David Fanning on Mon, 11 January 2010 15:14
		Re: Greek Symbols in Plot Annotations By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 11 January 2010 15:02
		Re: Greek Symbols in Plot Annotations By: David Fanning on Mon, 11 January 2010 05:44
		Re: Greek Symbols in Plot Annotations By: wlandsman on Mon, 11 January 2010 05:26
		Re: Greek Symbols in Plot Annotations By: cgguido on Sun, 10 January 2010 12:15

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