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Re: sun symbol [message #80551 is a reply to message #41403]

Mon, 25 June 2012 10:34

Michael Galloy
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On 6/25/12 11:16 AM, wlandsman wrote:
> On Monday, June 25, 2012 12:43:57 PM UTC-4, Mike Galloy wrote:
>
>>
>> I thought more astronomer's would chime in, but the routine I know about
>> is SUNSYMBOL
>>
>> http://idlastro.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftp/pro/plot/sunsymbol.pro
>>
>> available from the IDL Astronomy User's Library
>
> This program uses a kluge in which the center dot is actually slightly off-center. I think the OP was asking about publication quality plots using psfrag. I was actually waiting for you to chime in with
>
> http://michaelgalloy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/vis_psfr ag.pro
>
> although this is not yet a drop-in solution.

Well, if SUNSYMBOL is a kludge, I would not want to know the word used
about VIS_PSFRAG. SUNSYMBOL is definitely more user-friendly, though it
might not produce perfect publication quality output.

Mike
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		Sun Symbol By: David Fanning on Mon, 25 October 2004 08:14
		Re: sun symbol By: Michael Galloy on Mon, 25 June 2012 10:34
		Re: sun symbol By: Thibault Garel on Tue, 26 June 2012 00:43
		Re: sun symbol By: wlandsman on Mon, 25 June 2012 10:16
		Re: sun symbol By: Michael Galloy on Mon, 25 June 2012 09:43
		Re: sun symbol By: Thibault Garel on Fri, 22 June 2012 22:53
		Re: sun symbol By: manodeep@gmail.com on Wed, 27 June 2012 18:15
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