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Re: Earth Symbol [message #75459]

Mon, 14 March 2011 09:31

Michael Galloy
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On 3/14/11 9:19 AM, Chris Torrence wrote:
> I assume you are using direct graphics? If so, I'm not sure what the
> problem is with your fonts. I am able to use the "!20S!3" in both the
> plot title and xyouts, using either a direct graphics window or sent
> to a postscript file. I am on a Win32 box.
>
> The "$\oplus$" (along with the other LaTeX commands) is only available
> for new graphics. For example:
>
> x = FINDGEN(10)
> y = RANDOMU(s,10)
> p = PLOT(x, y, TITLE="$\oplus$")
> ; To get the other planets (and the Sun!) you need to use a Unicode
> font:
> t = TEXT(5,0.5,"$\Earth \Sun \Saturn$", /DATA, FONT_NAME='Arial
> Unicode MS')

Well, you can use the new LaTeX commands with direct graphics if you use
the new TEX2IDL routine distributed with IDL 8.0:

IDL> xyouts, 0.5, 0.5, charsize=5., /normal, tex2idl('$\oplus$'), font=1

Mike
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		Re: Earth Symbol By: Michael Galloy on Mon, 14 March 2011 09:31
		Re: Earth Symbol By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Mon, 14 March 2011 08:19
		Re: Earth Symbol By: Tim Bovaird on Mon, 14 March 2011 06:41
		Re: Earth Symbol By: Nikola on Mon, 14 March 2011 03:41
		Re: Earth Symbol By: Tim Bovaird on Sun, 13 March 2011 19:58
		Re: Earth Symbol By: penteado on Sun, 13 March 2011 12:39
		Re: Earth Symbol By: penteado on Mon, 14 March 2011 11:47

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