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Re: Angstrom symbol in IDL5.6 [message #34857 is a reply to message #34854]

Wed, 23 April 2003 07:01

Liam E. Gumley
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"Kristian Kjaer" <Kristian.Kjaer@Risoe.DK> wrote in message
news:3EA656F8.65FA0695@Risoe.DK...
> On http://www.dfanning.com/misc_tips/angstrom.html Dave Fanning shows us
> how to draw an 'Angstrom symbol' (which is of course just the last
> letter of the alphabet used around here).
>
> Something like:
> angstrom = '!6!sA!r!u!9 %!n!x'
> XYOUTS, 0.1, 0.5, /Normal, CharSize=5.0, 'Symbol: ' + angstrom
>
> But in IDL5.6 this doesn't work so well as in earlier versions: The
> 'ring' is displaced.
>
> Anything to suggest this is not a genuine bug?

I find Matt Craig's TeXtoIDL package to be indispensable for plotting
symbols:

http://physweb.mnstate.edu/mcraig/TeXtoIDL/

Cheers,
Liam.
Practical IDL Programming
http://www.gumley.com/

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		Re: Angstrom symbol in IDL5.6 By: K. Bowman on Thu, 24 April 2003 12:31
		Re: Angstrom symbol in IDL5.6 By: R.Bauer on Thu, 24 April 2003 12:00
		Re: Angstrom symbol in IDL5.6 By: CM on Thu, 24 April 2003 09:37
		Re: Angstrom symbol in IDL5.6 By: R.Bauer on Wed, 23 April 2003 07:31
		Re: Angstrom symbol in IDL5.6 By: Liam E. Gumley on Wed, 23 April 2003 07:01
		Re: Angstrom symbol in IDL5.6 By: David Fanning on Wed, 23 April 2003 06:28
		Re: Angstrom symbol in IDL5.6 By: Kristian Kjaer on Mon, 28 April 2003 01:41

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