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Re: italic greek? [message #82429 is a reply to message #82414]

Tue, 11 December 2012 10:13

David Fanning
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David Fanning writes:

>
> sdjohnson.mail@gmail.com writes:
>
>> I am trying to make a plot with an italicized greek symbol (theta) using the various cg commands, but have not found a way of doing so. Does anyone know how?
>
> I think you are probably going to have to find
> an italicized Greek font somewhere...

You can obviously make italic versions of Postscript fonts,
including the Symbol font, which is used to create Greek
characters:

Set_Plot, 'PS'
Device, /Italic, /Symbol

But, there is no way in IDL that I know of to switch
from an non-italic to italic and back to non-italic
font inside a text string. So, if you wanted an italic
theta and non-italic text otherwise, you would have to
divide the text string into italic and non-italic parts
and write them separately.

Seems like a lot of work for very little benefit
to me. :-)

Cheers,

David

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David Fanning, Ph.D.
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		Re: italic greek? By: chris_torrence@NOSPAM on Tue, 11 December 2012 22:00
		Re: italic greek? By: David Fanning on Tue, 11 December 2012 10:13
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