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Re: gEDA-dev: pcb wiki documentation on thin-draw andotherkey mappings

Hi,

  This should just do the right thing if the mu character has a unicode expression, and your Postscript font has this glyph in there. 

  I can double check to see if the table that maps unicode to glyphs and their names includes the greek alphabet.  If it does, then the trick is to find a font that looks nice and includes the appropriate character. We could also design some of our own characters and drop them into the prolog, and add them to a set of 'standard' characters that we use. 

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                                      Mike Jarabek
         FPGA/ASIC Designer, DSP Firmware Designer
http://www.sentex.ca/~mjarabek                    
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-----Original Message-----
From: DJ Delorie <dj@delorie.com>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 21:07:53 
To:geda-dev@moria.seul.org
Subject: Re: gEDA-dev: pcb wiki documentation on thin-draw and other
	key	mappings


> Continuing nitpicking, the µ sign appears correctly on the screen but
> not on printer output (PostScript). 
> 
> My PostScript skills are extremely rusty but the hardest part is
> that I don't know where to start looking at, anybody wants
> to give me guidelines on how this could be fixed (which file
> is responsible for this would be a good starting point) ?

On the PS side, you would have to install an encoding to map that
character from somewhere else in the available glyph set to the 8 bit
character codes, assuming the current font even has that glyph.

Alternately, switch to the Symbol font and print the right character,
as Symbol has the whole greek alphabet.  mu is 0155 (octal) according
to my book.

Note that the X symbol font has the same encoding as PS, as far as I
can tell.


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