Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [ferret_users] how to show angle brackets in labels/titles

[Xiaoyu Bai <xbai1@xxxxxxxx>]

Dear Ryo and Ansley,

emdash works for some fonts like Times. For fonts like Helvatica, the symbol became a mirror symmetric "C" for emdash. 😸 So the emdash trick works for some fonts. 

The Math font methods have some problems. If I do 

label 180,0,0,0,0.2,@IM22@MA26 Text @MA27

Pyferret doesn't recognize Text is not a math symbol so the label came out as —<....>. Is there a command like @Text, so Ferret can recognize the text?

Thank you very much and stay healthy,

Xiaoyu

On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 1:50 AM Ryo Furue <furue@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Dear Xiaoyu,

By the way, are there some tricks to "draw" a longer line in a label but without really plotting the line?

Say I use 

label 0 -12 0 0 .2 - -<OLR>

to label a line (-) using a negative OLR -<OLR>. They both come out as the same length. I am currently using 

label 0 -12 0 0 .2 _ -<OLR> to distinguish these two lines.

Let me know if there are better tricks.

Actually, you can use any unicode characters with system fonts.  I'm attaching a ferret script to demonstrate how you use th

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Xiaoyu (she/her)