comp.lang.idl-pvwave archive: archive » Re: Special Characters in IDL

Home » Public Forums » archive » Re: Special Characters in IDL

Show: Today's Messages :: Show Polls :: Message Navigator
E-mail to friend

Re: Special Characters in IDL [message #35375]

Fri, 30 May 2003 10:41

David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001

Senior Member

Liam Gumley (Liam.Gumley@ssec.wisc.edu) writes:

> An alternative for plotting mathematical symbols is TeXtoIDL by Matthew
> Craig:
>
> http://physweb.mnstate.edu/mcraig/TeXtoIDL/
>
> For example, to plot a "less than or equal to" symbol:
>
> IDL> xyouts, 0.5, 0.0, textoidl('\leq'), /normal
>
> It works identically for vector and PostScript fonts.

This looks promising, Liam. Much easier. (Although
I had to read your book before I discovered that I
had to set the FONT keyword *both* on the graphics
command AND in the TextoIDL call!)

But why is the symbol offset to the top of the line?
I can't find any way to correct this.

Cheers,

David

--
David W. Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Phone: 970-221-0438, E-mail: david@dfanning.com
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Toll-Free IDL Book Orders: 1-888-461-0155

Report message to a moderator

[Message index]

		Re: Special Characters in IDL By: David Fanning on Fri, 30 May 2003 10:41
		Re: Special Characters in IDL By: Liam E. Gumley on Fri, 30 May 2003 10:14

Previous Topic:	Special Characters in IDL
Next Topic:	SOLVED. Re: Function referencing/automatic defintion question.

-=] Back to Top [=-

[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [

] [

]

Current Time: Wed Oct 08 17:15:14 PDT 2025

Total time taken to generate the page: 0.00391 seconds