| Phoenician aleph [message #87517] |
Tue, 11 February 2014 16:42  |
kdpenner
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Hi everyone,
I'm using the Phoenician aleph as a symbol in some text, and I'd like to use it on the x axis label of a PostScript plot. I can find the Hebrew aleph, but the Phoenician one looks quite different. It's Unicode 10900, which I can't get to work. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Kyle
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| Re: Phoenician aleph [message #87518 is a reply to message #87517] |
Tue, 11 February 2014 19:40  |
chris_torrence@NOSPAM
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On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 5:42:09 PM UTC-7, kdpe...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi everyone,
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> I'm using the Phoenician aleph as a symbol in some text, and I'd like to use it on the x axis label of a PostScript plot. I can find the Hebrew aleph, but the Phoenician one looks quite different. It's Unicode 10900, which I can't get to work. Any ideas?
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> Thanks,
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> Kyle
Hi Kyle,
I think you might be out of luck, unless someone has a brilliant workaround. Right now, IDL's graphics only handle 16-bit Unicode characters (up to $FFFF). Here's the error I get:
w = WINDOW()
; Works fine
t = TEXT(0.5, 0.5, "$\U(266A,266C) \Pluto's really small \U(266B)$")
; Doesn't work
t = TEXT(0.5, 0.5, "$\U(10900)$", font_size=48)
% IDLGRSRCDEST::GETTEXTDIMENSIONS: Error using Hershey characters: !Z hexadecimal value too large.
% IDLGRMODEL::DRAW: Error using Hershey characters: !Z hexadecimal value too large.
-Chris
ExelisVIS
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| Re: Phoenician aleph [message #87519 is a reply to message #87517] |
Wed, 12 February 2014 04:44 |
Heinz Stege
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On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 16:42:09 -0800 (PST), kdpenner@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm using the Phoenician aleph as a symbol in some text, and I'd like to use it on the x axis label of a PostScript plot. I can find the Hebrew aleph, but the Phoenician one looks quite different. It's Unicode 10900, which I can't get to work. Any ideas?
For Hershey Fonts (i.e. !P.FONT = -1), the following workaround may
help:
aleph='!3!s<!r!i !nl!d !n!x'
erase
xyouts,.1,.1,size=5,'Text '+aleph+' Text'
It's not beautiful, but maybe readable.
Cheers, Heinz
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| Re: Phoenician aleph [message #87524 is a reply to message #87519] |
Wed, 12 February 2014 11:25 |
kdpenner
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Chris, that's the same error I got---was wondering what's up. Thanks for the explanation.
Heinz, thanks! The following also works (though it's not more pretty, unfortunately), if anyone wants device fonts:
!p.font=0
set_plot, 'ps'
data=[1,2,3]
aleph='!s<!r!d !n|!d !n'
device, file='idl.ps'
plot, data, data, xtitle=aleph
device, /close
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| Re: Phoenician aleph [message #87539 is a reply to message #87524] |
Fri, 14 February 2014 07:48 |
chris_torrence@NOSPAM
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On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 12:25:16 PM UTC-7, kdpe...@gmail.com wrote:
> Chris, that's the same error I got---was wondering what's up. Thanks for the explanation.
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> Heinz, thanks! The following also works (though it's not more pretty, unfortunately), if anyone wants device fonts:
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> set_plot, 'ps'
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> data=[1,2,3]
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> aleph='!s<!r!d !n|!d !n'
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> device, file='idl.ps'
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> plot, data, data, xtitle=aleph
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> device, /close
Hi Kyle,
Do you have a font that contains this character? I've hacked up IDL to get past the error, and I want to see if I can actually get the character on the screen...
-Chris
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| Re: Phoenician aleph [message #87540 is a reply to message #87539] |
Fri, 14 February 2014 07:55 |
chris_torrence@NOSPAM
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On Friday, February 14, 2014 8:48:43 AM UTC-7, Chris Torrence wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 12:25:16 PM UTC-7, kdpe...@gmail.com wrote:
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>> Chris, that's the same error I got---was wondering what's up. Thanks for the explanation.
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>> Heinz, thanks! The following also works (though it's not more pretty, unfortunately), if anyone wants device fonts:
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>> plot, data, data, xtitle=aleph
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>> device, /close
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> Hi Kyle,
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> Do you have a font that contains this character? I've hacked up IDL to get past the error, and I want to see if I can actually get the character on the screen...
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> -Chris
In the meantime, you could probably just download a font that had all of those characters in the "normal" A-Z positions:
http://29letters.wordpress.com/2007/07/05/fniqiya-type/
-Chris
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| Re: Phoenician aleph [message #87541 is a reply to message #87539] |
Fri, 14 February 2014 07:56 |
chris_torrence@NOSPAM
Messages: 528
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On Friday, February 14, 2014 8:48:43 AM UTC-7, Chris Torrence wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 12:25:16 PM UTC-7, kdpe...@gmail.com wrote:
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>> Chris, that's the same error I got---was wondering what's up. Thanks for the explanation.
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>> Heinz, thanks! The following also works (though it's not more pretty, unfortunately), if anyone wants device fonts:
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>> plot, data, data, xtitle=aleph
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>> device, /close
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> Hi Kyle,
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> Do you have a font that contains this character? I've hacked up IDL to get past the error, and I want to see if I can actually get the character on the screen...
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> -Chris
I messed up the link. Here is a font that has the characters in the normal A-Z range:
http://29letters.wordpress.com/2007/07/05/fniqiya-type/
-Chris
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| Re: Phoenician aleph [message #87550 is a reply to message #87541] |
Fri, 14 February 2014 11:26 |
kdpenner
Messages: 6
Registered: May 2013
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On Friday, February 14, 2014 8:56:56 AM UTC-7, Chris Torrence wrote:
> On Friday, February 14, 2014 8:48:43 AM UTC-7, Chris Torrence wrote:
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>> On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 12:25:16 PM UTC-7, kdpe...@gmail.com wrote:
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>>> Chris, that's the same error I got---was wondering what's up. Thanks for the explanation.
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>> Hi Kyle,
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>> Do you have a font that contains this character? I've hacked up IDL to get past the error, and I want to see if I can actually get the character on the screen...
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>> -Chris
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> I messed up the link. Here is a font that has the characters in the normal A-Z range:
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> http://29letters.wordpress.com/2007/07/05/fniqiya-type/
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Aegean.ttf has it:
http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/
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| Re: Phoenician aleph [message #87627 is a reply to message #87615] |
Wed, 19 February 2014 12:17 |
kdpenner
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Registered: May 2013
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On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 2:26:30 PM UTC-7, Chris Torrence wrote:
> On Friday, February 14, 2014 12:26:20 PM UTC-7, kdpe...@gmail.com wrote:
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>> http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/
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> Okay, I just modifed the IDL internals to allow Unicode characters of up to 8 hexadecimal digits. This is *only* for object graphics and new graphics. I wasn't able to do it for direct graphics because of the way IDL reads in truetype font files.
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> This change will ship with the next version of IDL (don't know when).
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> In the meantime, I would recommend using a font (like the one in the wordpress link) that has these characters down in the lower A-Z range. You won't be able to mix those characters with regular ASCII characters, but at least you can display them.
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> Cheers,
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> ExelisVIS
Excellent, thanks.
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