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Re: Font Tables Gone [message #77504 is a reply to message #77502]

Fri, 02 September 2011 03:12

Maarten[1]
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Registered: November 2005

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On Sep 2, 12:31 am, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:

> Anyway, I happened to be looking for the proper way
> to define a degree symbol and I noticed that the
> old font tables are completely gone from the IDL 8
> documentation. The good news, I guess, is that we
> don't have to be bothered by all that octal nonsense
> anymore. But, the bad news is, there is soon going to
> be a whole generation of IDL programmers who won't
> know how to cook anything that doesn't come in a box.

That only makes sense if IDL fully supports unicode. I guess that is
too much to ask. Then there is textoidl, which I find a whole lot
easier to work with than the font-codes, but maybe that is just me.

Maarten

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		Re: Font Tables Gone By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Fri, 02 September 2011 15:51
		Re: Font Tables Gone By: David Fanning on Fri, 02 September 2011 10:11
		Re: Font Tables Gone By: Brian McNoldy on Fri, 02 September 2011 09:49
		Re: Font Tables Gone By: Maarten[1] on Fri, 02 September 2011 03:12
		Re: Font Tables Gone By: Craig Markwardt on Thu, 01 September 2011 21:44

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