[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #30500] tex interpreter and the sun symbol (odot)

[David Bateman]

Update of bug #30500 (project octave):

                  Status:                    None => Wont Fix               
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 

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Follow-up Comment #2:

Octave doesn't supply the fonts, these are supplied by the packager of Octave
for the distribution you are using.. Note that the TeX interpreter in Octave
is just a light layer over gnuplot and the symbols that can be interpreted are
those given by gnuplot itself. Thus I don't think we can include odot till
gnuplot itself does. See

http://ariadne.mse.uiuc.edu/Info/Gnuplot/ps_guide.pdf

That being said. If the computer modern font has the odot symbol then you can
include any symbol in the font by addressing the character directly by its
code. Sorry I don't know the code of the odot character but if its 222 for
example, then somthing like

{/Computer-Modern 222}

or perhaps

{/ComputerModern 222}

will display the odot character 

As nothing can be done in Octave itself till gnuplot implements the odot
character, Octave doesn't control the installation of the fonts and if the
Computer Modern font is installed for use with Octave there is a work around,
I'm closing this feature request.

Sorry not to be more help, but if its any consolation, note that matlab can't
display the odot character either

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/237598

D.

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