| Re: Angstrom symbol? [message #7950] |
Thu, 30 January 1997 00:00  |
Andy Loughe
Messages: 174
Registered: November 1995
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David Fanning wrote:
> This is simple. Simply consult the table of octal values in the IDL
> documentation. (Octal values!? These people are trying to put money
> in my pocket!) You see that the octal value for the Angstrom symbol
> in Simplex Roman font (!3 for cognoscente) is 305. (Add the number
> in the column row to 10 times the row number, according to the
> documentation. Sigh...)
>
> So, here it is:
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> XYOUTS, 0.5, 0.5, /Normal, CharSize=2.0, 'Symbol: ' + STRING("305B)
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> What, you had to look up how to write an octal number! It's, "number,
> like that.
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> If that is too confusing for you, you can resort to the perfectly
> simple:
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> ang = '!6!sA!r!u!9 %!6!n'
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> Now all you have to do is:
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> XYOUTS, 0.5, 0.5, /Normal, CharSize=2.0, 'Symbol: ' + ang
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> Hope this clears up any confusion. :-)
One question, doesn't the first solution work for hardware fonts
and the second for software (vector-drawn) fonts?
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