Joke's on you--you've printed not a "Greek small letter mu" but a "micro sign"! This one works for me as well (I think this is because its code point fits in three digits of hex), but given that not all Greek characters have such equivalents, it's not a full solution.
Marshall On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 03:27:00PM -0500, J. Patrick Harrington wrote: > > When I do a. i. 'mu' (can't type the mu on this limux box), > I get 194 181 > This is true on my Macbook Pro for both J602 & J802. > > On Tue, 18 Nov 2014, Marshall Lochbaum wrote: > >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, > >>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
