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Re: Greek and other Symbols in Coyote Graphics [message #81104 is a reply to message #80968]

Fri, 17 August 2012 05:35

David Fanning
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rryan@stsci.edu writes:

> What about time derivatives, like with a dot? For example, can you do the analogous LaTeX command: $\dot{M}$ to be dM/dt but as an M with a small dot over it? I know this is historically a very tough thing...

Yes, you need to do typographic aerobatics to do something
like this. For me to include a symbol in cgSymbol, the symbol
has to be available as a glyph in some kind of a font that
IDL can access.

Cheers,

David

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		Greek and other Symbols in Coyote Graphics By: David Fanning on Fri, 27 July 2012 13:12
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