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Re: Angstrom Symbol Nonsense [message #8005 is a reply to message #8000]

Sun, 02 February 1997 00:00

steinhh
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Registered: June 1994

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In article <32F21F7B.738E@cdc.noaa.gov>, Andy Loughe <afl@cdc.noaa.gov> writes:
|> William Thompson wrote:
|>
|> >
|> > >David
|> >
|> > That's actually the same as the STRING("305B) that you suggested earlier, j
ust
|> > expressed in decimal as well as octal. It does work regardless of graphics
|> > device, including PostScript, so long as one avoids hardware fonts.
|> >
|> > Bill Thompson
|>
|>
|> Bingo!
|> I don't think this can be done, reliably at least, for hardware fonts.
|> What does that mean? With hardware fonts it may work in X, but never in
|> PS.

As a native of a country where the combined office staff is
probably spending millions of bucks each year trying to figure out
"how do we get these blasted norwegian characters to work on *this* one!"
whenver a piece of new equipment comes along, I'm proud to present the
solution:

set_plot,'PS'
!P.font=0

device,/isolatin1 ; It's only a shame that this is not the default...

xyouts,0.5,0.5,/normal,string(197b)
device,/close
set_plot,'X'

And to be really nitpicking, it's not at all an "angstrom sign" :-)
It merely happens to be the character used in the name of the Swedish
physicist {\Aa}ngstr{\"o}m.

The KeySym is "Aring".

Cheers,

Stein Vidar H. Haugan

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		RE: Angstrom Symbol Nonsense By: mallozzi on Sun, 02 February 1997 00:00
		Re: Angstrom Symbol Nonsense By: davidf on Sun, 02 February 1997 00:00
		Re: Angstrom Symbol Nonsense By: steinhh on Sun, 02 February 1997 00:00
		Re: Angstrom Symbol Nonsense By: Andy Loughe on Fri, 31 January 1997 00:00
		Re: Angstrom Symbol Nonsense By: Andy Loughe on Fri, 31 January 1997 00:00
		Re: Angstrom Symbol Nonsense By: davidf on Fri, 31 January 1997 00:00
		Re: Angstrom Symbol Nonsense By: thompson on Fri, 31 January 1997 00:00
		Re: Angstrom Symbol Nonsense By: davidf on Thu, 30 January 1997 00:00

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