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Re: Sun Symbol [message #41402 is a reply to message #8675]

Mon, 25 October 2004 08:51

Ben Panter
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Registered: July 2003

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David Fanning 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 always use M!l!9n!x!n which seems to work pretty well [in postscript
output of course... and onscreen it looks ok to me with simplex fonts]

I find that http://astron.berkeley.edu/~sdawson/idlfonts.html is a
really useful source for looking up what's what with these sort of things.

> 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.

M_\odot - not sure if this works with textoidl though

Ben

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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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