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Mon, 25 October 2004 08:14

David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001

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Folks,

I'm asked about every 10 minutes around here how to
get a good looking sun symbol on IDL plots. A sun
symbol is a circle with a dot in the center of it.
Usually you subscript a capital M with it, and it
represents the mass of the sun, a standard astronomical
unit.

I've read the back issues of the IDL newsgroup (which are
bound in leather on my shelves), and I've seen Wayne Landsman's
sunsymbol.pro in the Astro Library (how in the world
does anyone do any astronomy without Wayne's Library!?),
but I thought I would ask if there is any news I may
have overlooked.

Or, how is the world does LaTeX do it? They seem
to get it right, but we can't seem to work it out as
nicely.

Cheers,

David

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		Sun Symbol By: David Fanning on Mon, 25 October 2004 08:14
		Re: sun symbol By: Michael Galloy on Mon, 25 June 2012 10:34
		Re: sun symbol By: Thibault Garel on Tue, 26 June 2012 00:43
		Re: sun symbol By: wlandsman on Mon, 25 June 2012 10:16
		Re: sun symbol By: Michael Galloy on Mon, 25 June 2012 09:43
		Re: sun symbol By: Thibault Garel on Fri, 22 June 2012 22:53
		Re: sun symbol By: manodeep@gmail.com on Wed, 27 June 2012 18:15
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