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Re: Italic and upright in the same title/caption [message #66159 is a reply to message #66048]

Wed, 15 April 2009 09:38

Michael Galloy
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Registered: April 2006

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Michael Williams <mjwilliams@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is it possible to persuade IDL to use both italic and upright text in
> the same caption (e.g. italic for variable names, upright for units)?
> I would like to do this with Postscript output using the Times font.
> At the moment I'm creating the strings for my captions using TeXToIDL
> because they include subscripts and greek symbols, so bonus points for
> any suggestions that allow me to continue to use that!

Check the online help for embedding format codes in text written to
graphics devices. I don't have access to the online help right now, but
your string will look something like:

IDL> xyouts, 0.5, 0.5, 'Area !18A = hw!X', /normal

Mike
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