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Re: Sun symbol (again!) [message #64475 is a reply to message #64424]

Mon, 05 January 2009 06:47

pgrigis
Messages: 436
Registered: September 2007

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HI everybody,

I just wanted to mention that there is a way to
put LaTeX labels instead on postscript plots
generated in IDL.

This however requires to use an external program
after the plot is run in IDL. While it does require
quite a bit of effort, it may be useful if you want
to embed equations or esoteric symbols (such
as the Sun symbol) in your plots.

This was discussed in this group a while ago
and some smart googling should find the thread...

Ciao,
Paolo

jschwab@gmail.com wrote:
>>> What I'm left with is manually positioning the vector font symbol '!9!
>>> Z(6E)!X'. It will work and gives me something that's not bad looking.
>>> Unsurprisingly though, I find it rather unsatisfying.
>>
>>> If anyone has a better / more flexible solution, I'd love to hear it.
>
> I never found a more satisfactory solution than the following snippet.
>
> plot, [0, 0], [0, 0], /nodata, $
> xrange = [8, 16], xtitle = "Radius [km]",$
> ytitle = "Mass [M ]", yrange = [0, 3.5], $
> position = [0.10, 0.15, 0.53, 0.95], $
> xtickname = ['8', '10', '12', '14', ' ']
>
>
> xyouts, 6.80, 1.96, /data, "!9!Z(6E)!X", font = -1, charthick = 3, $
> charsize = 1.5
>
> which gave me something that looked like this.
>
> http://web.mit.edu/jschwab/Public/final_sunsym.png
>
> Fortunately, I only had a few different plots to make.
>
> Josiah

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		Sun symbol (again!) By: Michael Williams on Sun, 21 December 2008 15:32
		Re: Sun symbol (again!) By: jschwab@gmail.com on Mon, 29 December 2008 13:51
		Re: Sun symbol (again!) By: pgrigis on Mon, 05 January 2009 06:47
		Re: Sun symbol (again!) By: David Fanning on Sun, 28 December 2008 13:53
		Re: Sun symbol (again!) By: Michael Williams on Sun, 28 December 2008 09:19
		Re: Sun symbol (again!) By: David Fanning on Tue, 23 December 2008 19:15
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