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Re: star symbol in labels?? [message #81470 is a reply to message #81468]

Thu, 20 September 2012 10:17

Mats Löfdahl
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Registered: January 2012

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Den torsdagen den 20:e september 2012 kl. 03:09:07 UTC+2 skrev bing999:
> Hi,
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> I'd like to plot a star symbol in labels, i.e. xtitle=...
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> Do you know how to do that please?
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> Textoidl sounded to be a straightforward way to do that.
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> However, it seems that it does not support \star.
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> plot,dindgen(3),xtitle=textoidl('\star') will print \star instead of
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> the symbol.
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> However, if one plots an asterisk with \ast, it works fine...
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> I am a bit confused... Does textoidl miss some tex libraries?

Textoidl does not actually invoke TeX. It just knows how to translate a small subset of TeX to IDL strings. And it knows to do it differently depending on whether you are using vector fonts or postscript fonts.

It's fairly easy to add new symbols - provided you know the proper IDL strings. You just edit one of the tables in textable.pro, which can be found in the textoidl directory.

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		Re: star symbol in labels?? By: lecacheux.alain on Fri, 21 September 2012 01:35
		Re: star symbol in labels?? By: David Fanning on Thu, 20 September 2012 19:18
		Re: star symbol in labels?? By: Thibault Garel on Thu, 20 September 2012 18:56
		Re: star symbol in labels?? By: David Fanning on Thu, 20 September 2012 10:36
		Re: star symbol in labels?? By: Mats Löfdahl on Thu, 20 September 2012 10:17
		Re: star symbol in labels?? By: toby.brown03 on Thu, 26 February 2015 21:00
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		Re: star symbol in labels?? By: David Fanning on Fri, 27 February 2015 11:46
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