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Re: special characters in iTools annotation [message #58100 is a reply to message #58099]

Tue, 15 January 2008 09:39

Paul Van Delst[1]
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Registered: April 2002

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Benjamin Hornberger wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to put a "times" symbol (like the letter x, but not exactly,
> LaTeX $\times$) into an iTools annotation. I found it in the Helvetica
> font table at position 327 (octal), but I don't know how to add it to
> the iTools annotation.
>
> David's description on http://www.dfanning.com/ographics_tips/greek.html
> doesn't seem to help because since I am not creating the text object
> programmatically I can't use the string() function. Or can I somehow?
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Benjamin

Does this work:

IDL> window
IDL> x="327B
IDL> xyouts, 0.5,0.5,string(x),/norm,charsize=6

?

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[Message index]

		Re: special characters in iTools annotation By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Wed, 16 January 2008 09:22
		Re: special characters in iTools annotation By: Benjamin Hornberger on Tue, 15 January 2008 17:16
		Re: special characters in iTools annotation By: Benjamin Hornberger on Tue, 15 January 2008 14:21
		Re: special characters in iTools annotation By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Tue, 15 January 2008 13:32
		Re: special characters in iTools annotation By: David Fanning on Tue, 15 January 2008 11:15
		Re: special characters in iTools annotation By: David Fanning on Tue, 15 January 2008 11:11
		Re: special characters in iTools annotation By: Benjamin Hornberger on Tue, 15 January 2008 11:05
		Re: special characters in iTools annotation By: Benjamin Hornberger on Tue, 15 January 2008 11:00
		Re: special characters in iTools annotation By: David Fanning on Tue, 15 January 2008 09:45
		Re: special characters in iTools annotation By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 15 January 2008 09:39
		Re: special characters in iTools annotation By: Benjamin Hornberger on Wed, 16 January 2008 13:06

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