| Font Tables Gone [message #77506] |
Thu, 01 September 2011 15:31 |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001
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Folks,
We probably don't need more examples of how bad the
IDL documentation has gotten lately, but I have decided,
at long last, that I am too embarrassed to continue
selling IDL Programming Techniques, 2nd Edition any
more and I am working on a 3rd Edition. So, I have
been bringing myself up-to-date by reading the
documentation again.
Goodness! Where has it all gone!? And, worse,
what remains seems to be wrong in some particulars.
At least, I can't get MY version of IDL to behave
that way.
Anyway, I happened to be looking for the proper way
to define a degree symbol and I noticed that the
old font tables are completely gone from the IDL 8
documentation. The good news, I guess, is that we
don't have to be bothered by all that octal nonsense
anymore. But, the bad news is, there is soon going to
be a whole generation of IDL programmers who won't
know how to cook anything that doesn't come in a box.
I guess I'll have to put these in the appendix of
the book. If nothing else, we need to preserve them
for posterity. :-(
Cheers,
David
P.S. Let this be a lesson to you. When you upgrade your
IDL, keep your old IDL help files somewhere close by.
You are going to need them some day!
--
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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