[Kst] label miscellaneous.

[Barth Netterfield]

The bug:

I don't see this: \mu and \Delta seem to work at all sizes on my machine.  
What font are you using?  What QT are you using?

The Feature:
I like the idea.
We want to make sure it is done in a standard way. Does latex have such a 
concept?  If so, how is it done there?  Is \char{} used for this anywhere 
else?


cbn

On Sunday 01 April 2007 8:52:34 pm Duncan Hanson wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Has anyone else noticed that some of the label symbols don't work at all
> font sizes? Many of the symbols only work for the (almost illegible) 0
> size. As far as I can tell this is a problem with Qt's rendering, and not
> with Kst. We might want to make some workarounds for popular symbols,
> however. E.g. I sometimes want to use capital Delta in fonts greater than
> 0, but the currently used character (0x394) doesn't work. I suggest we use
> the difference symbol (0x2206) as a substitute, it looks fairly similar.
> Lowercase \mu is the same story, but I don't know of any similar symbols.
>
> I think it would also be good to be able to specify a unicode character
> directly in the label text. Here's a proposed patch, which introduces a new
> \char{} command. E.g. \char{0x2206} or \char{8710} would display the
> difference symbol.
>
> Duncan.