<html> <head> <!-- This file has been generated by unroff 1.0, 03/11/09 12:56:22. --> <!-- Do not edit! --> <STYLE TYPE="text/css"> <!-- A:link{text-decoration:none} A:visited{text-decoration:none} A:active{text-decoration:none} OL,UL,P,BODY,TD,TR,TH,FORM { font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;; font-size:small; color: #333333; } H1 { font-size: x-large; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; } H2 { font-size: large; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; } H3 { font-size: medium; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; } H4 { font-size: small; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; } --> </STYLE> <title>ploticus: special characters</title> <body bgcolor=D0D0EE vlink=0000FF> <br> <br> <center> <table cellpadding=2 bgcolor=FFFFFF width=550><tr> <td> <table cellpadding=2 width=550><tr> <td><br><h2>special characters</h2></td> <td align=right> <small> <a href="../doc/welcome.html"><img src="../doc/ploticus.gif" border=0></a><br> Version 2.41 Mar2009 <td></tr></table> </td></tr> <td> <br> <br> <title>Manual page for special_characters(PL)</title> </head> <body> <h2>DESCRIPTION</h2> Text specifications may include embedded special characters.<tt> </tt> These correspond to the PostScript Symbol font and thus may be used in PostScript mode only.<tt> </tt> The PostScript special characters feature was written by Marvin Newhouse.<tt> </tt> <p> If doing PNG, GIF or X11, you can render any of the characters found in the ASCII range 128-255, by embedding the desired ascii value within the text item. <h2>EXAMPLE</h2> <tt>Title: Cities having average temperature \(<= 20 degrees C </tt><p> Here are the available special characters.<tt> </tt> Usage: <tt>\(</tt><i>AB</i> <br> (e.g. <tt>\(bu</tt> to get a bullet).<tt> </tt> <pre> AB what --- ---------- AE AE PL Lslash OE OE O/ Oslash ae ae be breve bu bullet ct cent ^ circumflex dg dagger dd daggerdbl um dieresis dt dotaccent ui dotlessi em emdash en endash !! exclamdown ff ff Fi ffi Fl ffl fi fi fl fl ss germandbls ga grave d< guillemotleft d> guillemotright hy hyphen lb lb lc lc lf lf lk lk Pl lslash lt lt mc macron ob ob oe oe og ogonek o/ oslash pp paragraph pm perthousand ?? questiondown lq quotedblleft rq quotedblright n' quotesingle rb rb rc rc rf rf ri ring rk rk rn rn rt rt ru ru sc Section sq sq ps sterling ~ tilde ul ul vr vr yi yen *d delta *e epsilon *f phi *g gamma *y eta *i iota *k kappa *l lambda *m mu *n nu *o omicron *p pi *h theta *r rho *s sigma *t tau *u upsilon *w omega *c xi *q psi *z zeta or bar ap similar fm minute <= lessequal if infinity $D florin dm diamond bs heart <> arrowboth <- arrowleft ua arrowup -> arrowright da arrowdown de degree +- plusminus sd second >= greaterequal mu multiply pt proportional pd partialdiff bullet di divide != notequal == equivalence ~= approxequal cr carriagereturn al aleph ax circlemultiply a+ circleplus es emptyset ca intersection cu union sp propersuperset ip reflexsuperset !s notsubset sb propersubset ib reflexsubset mo element !m notelement gr gradient rg registerserif co copyrightserif tm trademarkserif sr radical m. dotmath no logicalnot an logicaland lo logicalor io arrowdblboth <: arrowdblleft lh arrowdblleft :> arrowdblright rh arrowdblright l< angleleft r> angleright is integral fa universal te existential ** asteriskmath pl plus \- minus sl slash eq equal *A Alpha *B Beta *X Chi *D Delta *E Epsilon *F Phi *G Gamma *Y Eta *I Iota *K Kappa *L Lambda *M Mu *N Nu *O Omicron *P Pi *H Theta *R Rho *S Sigma *T Tau *U Upsilon ts sigma1 *W Omega *C Xi *Q Psi *Z Zeta tf therefore bt perpendicular \_ underscore *a alpha *b beta *x chi <br> <br> </td></tr> <td align=right> <a href="../doc/welcome.html"> <img src="../doc/ploticus.gif" border=0></a><br><small>data display engine <br> <a href="../doc/Copyright.html">Copyright Steve Grubb</a> <br> <br> <center> <img src="../gallery/all.gif"> </center> </td></tr> </table> <br> <center> <table><tr><td> Ploticus is hosted at http://ploticus.sourceforge.net</td><td> </td><td> <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ploticus"><img src="http://sflogo.sourceforge.net/sflogo.php?group_id=38453&type=12" width="120" height="30" border="0" alt="Get ploticus data display engine at SourceForge.net. Fast, secure and Free Open Source software downloads" /></a> </td></tr></table> </center> </pre> <p><hr> Markup created by <em>unroff</em> 1.0, <tt> </tt> <tt> </tt>March 11, 2009. </body> </html>