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Re: Angstrom Symbol Nonsense [message #8025 is a reply to message #8020]

Fri, 31 January 1997 00:00

thompson
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Registered: August 1991

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davidf@dfanning.com (David Fanning) writes:

> Brian Handy is traveling and unable to post to this newsgroup,
> but he points out to me that for his angstrom symbol he uses this:

> ang = STRING(197B)

> He claims it works on the display and in PostScript files.

> I don't know. I think it should be disqualified as being *way*
> too easy. Most of us programmer types would feel
> uncomfortable with it.

> Thanks, Brian!

> David

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.

Bill Thompson

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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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