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Re: Parallel and Perpendicular symbols in IDL 8 New Graphics. [message #84567 is a reply to message #84392]

Tue, 04 June 2013 22:17

Xin Tao
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Registered: April 2011

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Thank you very much, Paul and alx! I thought IDL 8 followed LaTeX and I kept trying \perp and \| for those symbols.

Xin

On Tuesday, June 4, 2013 8:24:57 PM UTC+8, Paul van Delst wrote:
> IDL> w=window()
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> IDL> p=text(0.3, 0.5,'$\bot$',font_size=20)
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> IDL> p=text(0.7, 0.5,'$\parallel$',font_size=20)
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> Subscripts follows the same latex format:
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> IDL> p=text(0.3, 0.2,'Hello$_\bot$',font_size=20)
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> IDL> p=text(0.7, 0.2,'there$_\parallel$',font_size=20)
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> For some reason IDL uses "\bot" rather than "\perp" for the
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> perpendicular symbol. Huh.
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> cheers,
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> paulv
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> On 06/04/13 02:32, Xin Tao wrote:
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>> Dear all,
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>>
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>> I'm using IDL NG, but I don't know how to put symbols like
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>> "perpendicular" (upside down T) and "parallel" (||) in annotations.
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>> In DG, I can do it, although not in a straightforward way. Is there
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>> an easy way to add those two symbols as subscripts in NG? Thanks.
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>> Xin
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>>

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		Parallel and Perpendicular symbols in IDL 8 New Graphics. By: Xin Tao on Mon, 03 June 2013 23:32
		Re: Parallel and Perpendicular symbols in IDL 8 New Graphics. By: Xin Tao on Tue, 04 June 2013 22:17
		Re: Parallel and Perpendicular symbols in IDL 8 New Graphics. By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 04 June 2013 05:24
		Re: Parallel and Perpendicular symbols in IDL 8 New Graphics. By: Haje Korth on Thu, 18 July 2013 07:35
		Re: Parallel and Perpendicular symbols in IDL 8 New Graphics. By: lecacheux.alain on Tue, 04 June 2013 01:45

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