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Re: Font Tables Gone [message #77493]

Fri, 02 September 2011 15:51

Paul Van Delst[1]
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Craig Markwardt wrote:
> On Sep 1, 6:31 pm, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
>> P.S. Let this be a lesson to you. When you upgrade your
>> IDL, keep your old IDL help files somewhere close by.
>> You are going to need them some day!
>
> Or... just never upgrade!

Well, to be somewhat fair, if you do upgrade IDL text objects can now be written in TeX format off the bat.

-----%<-----
Adding Mathematical Symbols and Greek Letters to the Text String

You can add mathematical symbols and Greek letters to the text string using a TeX-like syntax. To turn on math symbols
for a text string (or a portion of a string), you need to surround that region with a pair of "$" characters. The
following tables list the symbols and letters you can embed within a text string:

[followed by a table of TeX definitions and their result]
-----%<-----

thus, $\deg$ gives one the degree symbol (ostensibly in a more "proper way" :o)

cheers,

paulv

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		Re: Font Tables Gone By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Fri, 02 September 2011 15:51
		Re: Font Tables Gone By: David Fanning on Fri, 02 September 2011 10:11
		Re: Font Tables Gone By: Brian McNoldy on Fri, 02 September 2011 09:49
		Re: Font Tables Gone By: Maarten[1] on Fri, 02 September 2011 03:12
		Re: Font Tables Gone By: Craig Markwardt on Thu, 01 September 2011 21:44

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