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Re: Text Formatting with TexToIDL [message #47570 is a reply to message #47569]

Wed, 15 February 2006 15:21

Craig Markwardt
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Registered: November 1996

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David Fanning <davidf@dfanning.com> writes:

> Folks,
>
> Here is a straightforward string using TexToIDL:
>
> IDL> xyouts, 0.5, 0.5, charsize=2.5, align=0.5, /normal, $
> textoidl(' \lambda_{1} (nm)')
> IDL> Print, textoidl(' \lambda_{1} (nm)')
> !7k!X!D1!N (nm)
>
> Just what I want. But...I want it in object graphics:
>
> IDL> string = textoidl(' \lambda_{1} (nm)')
> IDL> text = obj_new('idlgrtext', string, ENABLE_FORMATTING=1)
> IDL> xobjview, text
>
> NOT what I want. :-(
>
> What good is it to enable formatting if I'm going to get something
> completely different!?

David, the problem is that the font sets and character encodings for
the TrueType and PostScript fonts are totally different than the
direct graphics Hershey fonts. textoidl() only knows about the
Hershey fonts. Somebody would have to re-write a part of textoidl()
to handle the new encodings.

Craig

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		Re: Text Formatting with TexToIDL By: David Fanning on Wed, 15 February 2006 21:27
		Re: Text Formatting with TexToIDL By: Craig Markwardt on Wed, 15 February 2006 15:29
		Re: Text Formatting with TexToIDL By: Craig Markwardt on Wed, 15 February 2006 15:21
		Re: Text Formatting with TexToIDL By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 15 February 2006 14:29

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