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Re: Postscript font usage
- Subject: Re: Postscript font usage
- From: "Liam E. Gumley" <Liam.Gumley(at)ssec.wisc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 09:05:30 -0500
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.idl-pvwave
- Organization: Space Science and Engineering Center, UW-Madison
- References: <9b6ud3$kr3$1@news.ccit.arizona.edu>
- Xref: news.doit.wisc.edu comp.lang.idl-pvwave:24540
Barbara A Cohen wrote:
> I use PS fonts exclusively too, because of the nice aesthetics.
> It is a big pain to find some of the special symbols but it's
> worth it (btw how DO you get the sun symbol?). As for crossing
> platforms, how's this: I can switch into math mode to get a
> character like del or the plus/minus on my Mac G3 laptop, but
> NOT on my iMac. Nobody (including multiple tries with RSI)
> has been able to help me on this one.
I highly recommend TeXtoIDL for formatting Greek and math symbols in
PostScript and vector fonts:
http://physweb.mnstate.edu/mcraig/TeXtoIDL/
Cheers,
Liam.