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Re: Superscripts in IDL [x-y]title [message #13463 is a reply to message #13462]

Wed, 11 November 1998 00:00

hjpsmith
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Registered: November 1998

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On Wed, 11 Nov 1998 02:16:25 GMT, menakkis@my-dejanews.com wrote:

> hjpsmith@bigfoot.com (Henry J. P. Smith) wrote:
>> My co-author on a paper would like to see superscripts in the axis
>> titles of simple 2-d plots, e.g. instead of something like cm**-3 ot
>> have cm^{-3} - using TeX notation.
>>
>> I am using PS fonts so I think there must be a way to do this. Is
>> there any way to get IDL to do it directly? I suppose I could do it in
>> POSTSCRIPT but I don't really know PS and don't have time to learn it
>> right now. At least I think I don't - perhaps the same thing? <G>
>
> I speak from a standpoint of relative ignorance (I usually don't mess with
> fonts :-), but I think something like this IS quite easy. Search the IDL
> online docs for "Embedded Formatting Commands" and all shall be revealed. In
> brief, !E embedded in your character string will kick following text up to
> superscript, and !N will put following text back to normal. This stuff
> reportedly works for various devices (on a pot-luck basis, apparently). It
> DOES work for PS, on IDL/NT at least.
>

Thanks a lot to David and Peter! This should do it.

Why is it so hard sometimes to find such simple solutions? <G> Or is
it just me? <GG>

Regards,

Henry

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		Re: Superscripts in IDL [x-y]title By: Craig Markwardt on Wed, 11 November 1998 00:00
		Re: Superscripts in IDL [x-y]title By: hjpsmith on Wed, 11 November 1998 00:00
		Re: Superscripts in IDL [x-y]title By: Martin Schultz on Wed, 11 November 1998 00:00
		Re: Superscripts in IDL [x-y]title By: menakkis on Wed, 11 November 1998 00:00
		Re: Superscripts in IDL [x-y]title By: davidf on Tue, 10 November 1998 00:00

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