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Re: star symbol in labels?? [message #81461] Fri, 21 September 2012 01:35 Go to previous message
lecacheux.alain is currently offline  lecacheux.alain
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Le vendredi 21 septembre 2012 03:56:06 UTC+2, bing999 a écrit :
> Thanks Mats for the clarification regarding textoidl. However, in the
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> case of a star symbol, I don't know the IDL string, and nor does
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> google... :)
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> From David's post, I guess that's a well-known issue.
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> Any other way to put a star symbol in a string?
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> Thanks guys!
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> Bing

The 'dejavusans' font, introduced in IDL 8.2, includes the star symbol (unicode '22C6'x).
For instance:

pl=plot(/TEST) & !null=text(0.5,0.5,'$\U(22C6)$',FONT_SIZE=30)

alx.
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