Re: Unicode characters for degrees, minutes, seconds above the decimal point.

2013-07-07 Thread Thibaud Taudin Chabot
This looks not logic. The unit symbol comes after the value and not in between. If you put the ° above the decimal . then what unit is the value after the decimal .? Everywhere the notation [value] [measuring unit] is used, even if the [value] has a fractional part. But an artist never really

Re: Unicode characters for degrees, minutes, seconds above the decimal point.

2013-07-07 Thread Gianni Ferrari
I agree completely with Thibaud ! Best wishes Gianni Ferrari - 2013/7/7 Thibaud Taudin Chabot tcha...@dds.nl This looks not logic. The unit symbol comes *after *the value and not in between. If you put the ° above the decimal . then what unit is the value after the

Re: Unicode characters for degrees, minutes, seconds above the decimal point.

2013-07-06 Thread JOHN DAVIS
with the modified font embedded.   Regards,   John -- Dr J Davis Flowton Dials From: J M jgera...@gmail.com To: sundial@uni-koeln.de Sent: Saturday, 6 July 2013, 1:37 Subject: Unicode characters for degrees, minutes, seconds above

Re: Unicode characters for degrees, minutes, seconds above the decimal point.

2013-07-06 Thread Barry Wainwright
It can be done, but how the characters are rendered depends very much on the application used to render them.There are a block of unicode characters called "Combining Diacritical Marks" which are used to modify the preceding character. These characters include unicode character U-309A (UTF-8 E3 82

Re: Unicode characters for degrees, minutes, seconds above the decimal point.

2013-07-06 Thread Barry Wainwright
Of course, the better way to do it would be to generate it as a vector graphic: Characters.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document This is done in the following steps:In your graphics application of choice, type a text block "127°.42"Convert the text block to an outlineExplode the outline into

Re: Unicode characters for degrees, minutes, seconds above the decimal point.

2013-07-06 Thread Steve Lelievre
On 06/07/2013 8:38 AM, Barry Wainwright wrote: It can be done, but how the characters are rendered depends very much on the application used to render them. There are a block of unicode characters called "Combining