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Re: Angstrom symbol in IDL/PvWave title [message #395 is a reply to message #394]

Tue, 24 March 1992 15:44

sterne
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Registered: March 1992

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||> I'm making a plot and I need to use an Angstrom symbol in a title.
|> I don't see this symbol listen in the vector-drawn fonts (chapter 12
|> of the IDL manual) and I was wondering how other people solve this.

Divide by 0.5292 and label it "atomic units" instead :-)

Depending on your output device, you may be able to find a hardware font with the Angstrom symbol in it. This brings up another problem, however, which I have found very irritating. Unlike the Hershey fonts, here seems to be no way of mixing fonts within a string for the hardware fonts, eg postscript. If you want to mix symbol and non-symbol characters in the same line, you have to use two different xyouts commands and line them up by hand. Anybody got a better way?

Phil
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		Re: Angstrom symbol in IDL/PvWave title By: paul on Wed, 25 March 1992 09:37
		Re: Angstrom symbol in IDL/PvWave title By: hcohl on Wed, 25 March 1992 07:19
		Re: Angstrom symbol in IDL/PvWave title By: dieh1232 on Wed, 25 March 1992 05:51
		Re: Angstrom symbol in IDL/PvWave title By: hofer on Wed, 25 March 1992 00:13
		Re: Angstrom symbol in IDL/PvWave title By: sterne on Tue, 24 March 1992 15:44

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