[Kst] label miscellaneous.

[George Staikos]

I think this is related to the font or font libraries, not Qt  
specifically.  (I haven't seen it happen here.)

On 2-Apr-07, at 9:37 AM, Barth Netterfield wrote:

> 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.
>
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