To clarify, I'm working on Linux. Marshall
On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 03:09:36PM -0500, Marshall Lochbaum wrote: > That's weird--it definitely doesn't work on J7, for a standard unicode > (UTF8) μ. The character ¼ shows up instead, and is represented in the > pdf by \274. > > This is the UTF encoding of the character μ. You can easily copy-paste > the character from, for instance, the wikipedia page "Mu (letter)", and > a decent text editor should also provide some method of entering it > directly. Is the one you get with opt+m on a Mac different? > a. i. 'μ' > 206 188 > > The pdf my version of plot outputs uses the "WinAnsiEncoding" to encode > letters. This is hardcoded in jzplot.ijs and the windows encoding > doesn't appear to have greek characters. I assume your output uses a > different encoding. > > It would be really nice to convince plot to put arbitrary LaTeX in its > captions, but I don't know enough about pdfs or LaTeX to accomplish > this. > > Marshall > > On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 12:36:33PM -0500, J. Patrick Harrington wrote: > > Marshall, > > > > Brian's comment is at least a partial solution: I find that on > > my Mac (and under J602; haven't tried J802 yet) option+key gives > > various characters. In particular opt+m -> greek mu, what I need. > > Others are opt+ o,w,s,j,z -> phi, cap sigma, beta, cap delta, > > cap omega. But far from complete. > > If I type the opt+m into the xcaption, it comes through in > > both the 'show' plot and the .pdf plot. > > > > Patrick > > > > On Tue, 18 Nov 2014, Marshall Lochbaum wrote: > > >I've tried and failed to get greek characters into captions. Simply > > >using unicode is not sufficient, and I believe there was some reason > > >that even using the appropriate pdf encoding wouldn't work. It's > > >probably possible to hand-edit the pdf output but I did not try that. > > > > > >Marshall > > > > > >On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 12:09:14PM -0500, J. Patrick Harrington wrote: > > >>Brian, > > >> > > >> Thanks so much: titlefont, labelfont & captionfont are > > >>exactly what I needed. > > >> I still have to figure out the geek characters, but I > > >>can always spell them out :-( > > >> > > >> Patrick > > >> > > >>On Tue, 18 Nov 2014, Brian Schott wrote: > > >>>Patrick, > > >>> > > >>>If you search on the following page for ¸"font" I think captionfont may > > >>>be > > >>>effective. > > >>> > > >>>http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Plot/Options > > >>> > > >>>Greek fonts are out of my knowledge, except that on a Mac some > > >>>Option+keystroke produce *greek characters.* > > >>> > > >>> > > >>>-- > > >>>(B=) > > >>>---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >>>For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >>For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
