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Re: How to put prime on axis title such as U' [message #77827]

Wed, 05 October 2011 10:32

Brian Daniel
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Registered: July 2009

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On Oct 5, 8:51 am, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> Brian J. Daniel writes:
>
>> On Oct 4, 10:26 pm, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
>>> Zhang Bo writes:
>
>>>> On Oct 4, 6:02 pm, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
>>>> > Zhang Bo writes:
>>>> > > xtitle = 'U'(m/s)' kind of incorrect
>
>>>> > xtitle = 'U' + cgSymbol('prime') + ' (m/s)'
>
>> From the "more than one way to skin a cat" department: xtitle='U'' (m/
>> s)'
>
> One advantage of cgSymbol is that the symbols it produces
> will work both on the display and in a PostScript file.
> Normally, this is a hassle to program, since different
> values have to be used on the display and in a PostScript
> file. :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
> --
> David Fanning, Ph.D.
> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming:http://www.idlcoyote.com/
> Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

Of course the '' trick does not produce any other symbol, but it does
produce the same symbol in postscript as on the display. cgSymbol
works for this and any other symbol. My double-single quote trick is
just a trick I thought worth sharing.

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		Re: How to put prime on axis title such as U' By: Brian Daniel on Wed, 05 October 2011 10:32
		Re: How to put prime on axis title such as U' By: David Fanning on Wed, 05 October 2011 05:51
		Re: How to put prime on axis title such as U' By: Brian Daniel on Wed, 05 October 2011 05:45
		Re: How to put prime on axis title such as U' By: David Fanning on Tue, 04 October 2011 19:26
		Re: How to put prime on axis title such as U' By: Zhang Bo on Tue, 04 October 2011 16:14
		Re: How to put prime on axis title such as U' By: David Fanning on Tue, 04 October 2011 15:02

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