including characters from Symbol.

[Wolfie7873]

So i need a few greek letters in my document. I can find their octal rep'n in the PLRM, but I don't understand how to actually use them. For instance, the Symbol family encoding vector for lower-case "phi" is 14x6 = 150. So how do I use that number to make the greek letter show up in what i'm doing?

Thanks

 

[tgreer]

Several options. If you just want to draw a single glyph from a particular font, you can use the "glyphshow" operator:

%!PS

/Symbol 24 selectfont
10 10 moveto
/eta glyphshow

showpage

You can also use the "show" operator, if you use the octal code inside a string:

%!PS

/Symbol 24 selectfont
10 10 moveto
(\150) show

showpage

Or, if you want to get really fancy, you can build your own font that copies some other font, plus adds characters from Symbol. You can also create a composite font.

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