| Re: German Language Modified Vowels in Hershey Font [message #23450] |
Fri, 26 January 2001 11:25 |
davidf
Messages: 2866
Registered: September 1996
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Paul van Delst (pvandelst@ncep.noaa.gov) writes:
> David Fanning wrote:
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>> I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to discover
>> how I converted the octal values in the Showfont
>> illustration to a decimal number. :-)
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> Uhh...
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> IDL> x='306'O
> IDL> help, x
> X INT = 198
Well, that's one way. I used a method that
involves sticking your thumbs over into the
palms of your hands. :-)
Cheers,
David
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| Re: German Language Modified Vowels in Hershey Font [message #23519 is a reply to message #23450] |
Thu, 25 January 2001 05:19  |
Paul van Delst
Messages: 364
Registered: March 1997
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David Fanning wrote:
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> I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to discover
> how I converted the octal values in the Showfont
> illustration to a decimal number. :-)
Uhh...
IDL> x='306'O
IDL> help, x
X INT = 198
??
Or did you count up all the sets of 3 binary digits? No.... :o)
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