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>From: dieh1232@w206zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Rolf Diehl)
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Subject: Re: Angstrom symbol in IDL/PvWave title
Keywords: special characters
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Date: 25 Mar 92 13:51:58 GMT
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In article <1992Mar24.201306.16257@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> boroson@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (BOROSON BRAM S) writes:
>I'm making a plot and I need to use an Angstrom symbol in a title.
>I don't see this symbol listen in the vector-drawn fonts (chapter 12
>of the IDL manual) and I was wondering how other people solve this.
>
We got the same sort of problem here in Germany with our Umlauts ("a,"o,"u).
As a workaround I initialize a commmon block at the beginning of each
session that contains strings with base-character, the two dots and some
character-positioning-commands. It is not really perfect in the looks, but
PVI didn't offer anything better. For using these special characters I 
concatenate them with the other parts of the string to print,

e.g.: title=aeg+'rger'
common umlaut ,ae,aeg,oe,oeg,ue,ueg
ae='!sa!r!u!e!9 .    .  !n!3' & aeg='!sA!r!u!e!9 .    .  !n!3'
oe='!so!r!u!e!9 .    .   !n!3' & oeg='!sO!r!u!e!9 .     .   !n!3'
ue='!su!r!u!e!9 .    .   !n!3' & ueg='!sU!r!u!e!9  .    .   !n!3'

I suppose you could create the Angstrom in a similar way.

      rolf

rolf diehl	technical university berlin
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