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Re: Angstrom Symbol Nonsense [message #8024 is a reply to message #8020]

Fri, 31 January 1997 00:00

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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Bill Thompson <thompson@orpheus.nascom.nasa.gov> writes:

>> ang = STRING(197B)

> That's actually the same as the STRING("305B) that you suggested earlier, just
> expressed in decimal as well as octal. It does work regardless of graphics
> device, including PostScript, so long as one avoids hardware fonts.

Uh, right. :-(

I should point out, however, that whether you are an octal sort of
person ("305), or hexadecimal ('C5'x), or (heaven forbid!) decimal
(197), there is no way this is going to work unless you are using
the Simplex Roman font.

The correct formulation, it seems to me, is this:

angstrom = '!3' + STRING(197B) + '!x'

Cheers!

Davod

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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
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