Re: greek font

Nick van Eijndhoven (Nick@phys.uu.nl)
Wed, 27 May 1998 09:19:23 +0200

Wouter Hulsbergen wrote:
>
> Dear all,
> I want to put an `eta' at the horizaontal axis of a histogram. After some
> puzzling I find out that
> text = new TText(-1,0.939721,"h");
> text->SetTextFont(122);
> text->Draw();
> creates exactly the title I want in the root canvas. The chosen text-font
> is `greek-medium-r-normal' and for whatever reason `h' is the roman
> translation of the `eta'.
> However, after saving the canvas as a ps file I find out that ps uses
> another convention for translating the roman characters to their greek
> variants: instead of an `eta' , my axis is titled with a `chi', also very
> greek, but not exactly what I had in mind.
> Of course I can find the ps eta by creating a TText with the whole roman
> alphabet, as I would try if there was no roottalk. There must be a better
> solution, I hope. Could anyone take care that the greek fonts for root and
> for postscript agree ? Or am I doing something wrong ?
> Regards, many thanks
> Wouter

Hi Wouter,
I fully agree and the same holds for sub- and superscripts.
Why not introduce the LaTeX conventions with which everyone
is familiar ?

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