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Re: questions onn symbol and fonts [message #69600 is a reply to message #69580]

Fri, 05 February 2010 08:43

pgrigis
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Registered: September 2007

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On Feb 5, 12:09 am, "Mr.G" <gameplay...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I have problems typing greek and mathmatical symbols in my plots. For
> example, \frac{a}{b} seems impossible for me to type. I thought
> textoidl might help, however, I found that it only supports for latex
> greek symbols, not math symbols. Besides, it seems that ps font is
> not supported? On the documents it says that the keyword "font" can be
> set, but in practice, the program echos error message when I set the
> keyword. Anyone has ideas?

IDL simply does not have the capability of having anything
more then the simplest symbols in plots. So either you live
with that, or if you really need high-quality labels, the way
to go is to use the external package "psfrag" with LaTeX on
IDL-produced plots. It is time consuming and not exactly
painless, but it will deliver the best possible looking
symbols & equations in your plots.

Ciao,
Paolo

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