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Re: Italic labels

by Dieter Britz <oldnob@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Oct 9, 2008 at 11:09 AM

Dieter Britz wrote:

> Christoph Bersch wrote:
> 
>> Dieter Britz schrieb:
>>> sfeam wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Dieter Britz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have a graph where the axes are $\theta$ and $\Gamma$ and I want
>>>>> them both as the Greek letters, and in mathematical italic. How do I
>>>>> do that?
>>>> Depends entirely on the output terminal type.
>>>> postscript?  latex?  png?   on the screen?
>>> 
>>> postscript enh
>> 
>> Hmm, why do you want them in italic? Even LaTeX uses an upright symbol
>> when you type $\Gamma$.
>> If you still want it italic, you must find a font that has such an
>> italic \Gamma (serif or sansserif?) and that fits your other font used
>> for the axes. The standard Symbol font only has an upright \Gamma.
>> Then you can include the font with fontfile 'font.pfb' and use it.
>> 
>> Christoph
> 
> OK, you are right about $\Gamma$. But $\theta$ is italic. I thought
> that it is possible to use LaTeX-like strings in gnuplot. I also have
> a couple of other symbols, that I want italicised, that LaTeX does
> like that.
> 
> So, if the only way is to use this font.pfb, how do I do that? And
> will that then also apply to the axis numbers?
> 
> I attach the picture in which I want the axis labels in LaTeX maths
> font (i.e. italicised) - except \Gamma, it seems.

Sorry, that didn't work. Ignore the bit about an attachment.
-- 
Dieter Britz (oldnob<at>yahoo.dk)
 




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Italic labels
Dieter Britz <oldnob@[  2008-10-08 16:29:31 
Re: Italic labels
sfeam <sfeam@[EMAIL PR  2008-10-08 08:42:14 
Re: Italic labels
Dieter Britz <oldnob@[  2008-10-09 09:41:02 
Re: Italic labels
Christoph Bersch <usen  2008-10-09 10:03:07 
Re: Italic labels
Dieter Britz <oldnob@[  2008-10-09 11:09:10 
Re: Italic labels
Christoph Bersch <usen  2008-10-09 11:44:59 
Re: Italic labels
Dieter Britz <oldnob@[  2008-10-10 14:08:02 
Re: Italic labels
Christoph Bersch <usen  2008-10-10 20:57:54 

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