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Re: Text Formatting with TexToIDL [message #47575 is a reply to message #47570]

Wed, 15 February 2006 14:29

Paul Van Delst[1]
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Registered: April 2002

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David Fanning wrote:
> 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!?
>
> Any ideas?

This works:

IDL> s2='!Ml!X!D1!N (nm)'
IDL> text = obj_new('idlgrtext', s2, ENABLE_FORMATTING=1)
IDL> xobjview, text

I have similar problems with PS output in DG (i.e the difference between on screen chars
and PS output when !p.font=1) but it happens rarely enough that I've never bothered to
figure it out for good.

paulv

p.s. To have the character "k" correspond to lambda in the IDL font list/whatever makes no
sense (to me at least).

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Paul van Delst
CIMSS @ NOAA/NCEP/EMC

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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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