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Re: Sun Symbol [message #41401 is a reply to message #8675]

Mon, 25 October 2004 09:09

marcuirl
Messages: 14
Registered: December 2003

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David Fanning <david@dfanning.com> writes:

> I'm asked about every 10 minutes around here how to
> get a good looking sun symbol on IDL plots. A sun
> symbol is a circle with a dot in the center of it.
> Usually you subscript a capital M with it, and it
> represents the mass of the sun, a standard astronomical
> unit.
>
> I've read the back issues of the IDL newsgroup (which are
> bound in leather on my shelves), and I've seen Wayne Landsman's
> sunsymbol.pro in the Astro Library (how in the world
> does anyone do any astronomy without Wayne's Library!?),
> but I thought I would ask if there is any news I may
> have overlooked.
>
> Or, how is the world does LaTeX do it? They seem
> to get it right, but we can't seem to work it out as
> nicely.

On the side of IDL I can't help much on this but for LaTeX that would
be with the \astrosun obviously (-;

n.b. you need \usepackage{wasysym} in the preamble

The link below directs to a 2.3Mb PDF file in CTAN (Tex repository)
for all the symbols you could ever think or dream of using!

http://tinyurl.com/5583t

HTH

marcu
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		Sun Symbol in Postscript By: Wayne Landsman on Wed, 09 April 1997 00:00
		Re: Sun Symbol in Postscript By: Wayne Landsman on Fri, 11 April 1997 00:00
		Re: Sun Symbol By: David Fanning on Tue, 26 October 2004 07:55
		Re: Sun Symbol By: Joel Vernet on Tue, 26 October 2004 07:25
		Re: Sun Symbol By: David Fanning on Mon, 25 October 2004 22:08
		Re: Sun Symbol By: JD Smith on Mon, 25 October 2004 15:15
		Re: Sun Symbol By: David Fanning on Mon, 25 October 2004 14:07
		Re: Sun Symbol By: Wayne Landsman on Mon, 25 October 2004 13:31
		Re: Sun Symbol By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 25 October 2004 12:50
		Re: Sun Symbol By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 25 October 2004 12:46
		Re: Sun Symbol By: Craig Markwardt on Mon, 25 October 2004 12:29
		Re: Sun Symbol By: mperrin+news on Mon, 25 October 2004 12:30
		Re: Sun Symbol By: JD Smith on Mon, 25 October 2004 11:52
		Re: Sun Symbol By: David Fanning on Mon, 25 October 2004 11:55
		Re: Sun Symbol By: David Fanning on Mon, 25 October 2004 11:54
		Re: Sun Symbol By: mperrin+news on Mon, 25 October 2004 11:50
		Re: Sun Symbol By: mperrin+news on Mon, 25 October 2004 11:36
		Re: Sun Symbol By: David Fanning on Mon, 25 October 2004 11:22
		Re: Sun Symbol By: David Fanning on Mon, 25 October 2004 11:18
		Re: Sun Symbol By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 25 October 2004 11:02
		Re: Sun Symbol By: Craig Markwardt on Mon, 25 October 2004 10:36
		Re: Sun Symbol By: Ben Panter on Mon, 25 October 2004 09:21
		Re: Sun Symbol By: David Fanning on Mon, 25 October 2004 09:12
		Re: Sun Symbol By: marcuirl on Mon, 25 October 2004 09:09
		Re: Sun Symbol By: Ben Panter on Mon, 25 October 2004 08:51

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