| Re: Setting and unsetting the vector font number [message #34705 is a reply to message #34704] |
Fri, 04 April 2003 06:51   |
Kristian Kjaer
Messages: 58
Registered: June 1998
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Thanks.
But I want the tickmark numbers etc. in the fancy font too, without
having to generate those strings myself with xtickname. I thought I
could remember that I can achieve that by setting then font at the very
beginning and only resetting it at the very end.
- Kristian
Paul van Delst wrote:
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> What about the !X command? E.g.
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> PLOT, mydata, TITLE="!5Title of my plot!X"
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> ?
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> Doesn't this set the font to #5 and then switch it back to whatever the font was before
> the command? I always use !X when I change fonts in a test string, e.g. like when you want
> to insert greek letters and such (although that's an easy error to catch since it's all
> Greek to me after that :o)
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> It's an extra "!X" in every string you want to change, but that's a lot easier than trying
> to remember to switch it back at one particular spot. (At least I think so)
>
> paulv
> Kristian Kjaer wrote:
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>> IDL5.6 help says:
>> <quote>
>> Once the vector font system is selected, use an embedded formatting
>> command to select a vector font (or fonts) for each string. (See
>> Embedded Formatting Commands for details on embedded formatting
>> commands.) The font selected "sticks" from string to string; that is, if
>> you change fonts in one string, future strings will use the new font
>> until you change it again or exit IDL.
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>> For example, to use the Duplex Roman vector font for the title of a
>> plot, you would use a command that looks like this:
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>> PLOT, mydata, TITLE="!5Title of my plot"
>> </quote>
>>
>> So to have all of the lettering in font !5 (including the numbers near
>> the tickmarks, etc.) one has to include "!5" in the first string
>> processed by IDL in the plot command, and to reset to the default font
>> one must end the _last_ string by "!3".
>>
>> Somewhere I read which this first and last string are, but now I can't
>> find it.
>> Does anyone remember?
>>
>> Any other ideas for setting and unsetting the vector font number?
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