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Re: !M in IDL8 [message #82105 is a reply to message #82104]

Tue, 20 November 2012 13:11

Mark Piper
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Registered: December 2009

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On Tuesday, November 20, 2012 12:31:38 PM UTC-7, Jeremy Bailin wrote:
> Did the meaning of !M as an embedded formatting command change in IDL8??
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> I am running some code that generates plots that worked perfectly in
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> IDL7, but when I run it in IDL8 the entire text after the !M stays in
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> math mode, rather than reverting to the previous font after one
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> character. The online docs seem ambiguous - on
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> http://www.exelisvis.com/docs/Embedded_Formatting_Comm.html it is listed
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> both as "Switch to the math/symbol font for one character, then switch
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> back." under Positioning Commands, and identical to !9 in Changing Fonts
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> within a String.
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>
>
> This is going to be a real pain for any code I have that generates plots
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> in units of solar masses if that's "expected behaviour".
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>
>
> IDL> print, !version
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> { x86_64 darwin unix Mac OS X 8.2.1 Aug 20 2012 64 64}
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>
> -Jeremy.

Hi Jeremy,

I can't find any recent changes to !M. Can you give me more info? This:

IDL> plot, findgen(2), title='foo !Mb bar'

gives me the "greater than or equal to" sign (Windows and Linux) between the foo and the bar.

mp

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		Re: !M in IDL8 By: Mark Piper on Tue, 20 November 2012 14:48
		Re: !M in IDL8 By: Jeremy Bailin on Tue, 20 November 2012 13:43
		Re: !M in IDL8 By: Mark Piper on Tue, 20 November 2012 13:11
		Re: !M in IDL8 By: Jeremy Bailin on Wed, 21 November 2012 12:22

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