Re: Greek characters etc...

Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Wed, 14 May 1997 16:51:22 +0200

Nick van Eijndhoven wrote:
>
> Dear friends,
> I am trying to get the equivalent text of the LaTeX \pi^{-}
> (i.e. to denote a pi- particle) as a title on one of my histo axes.
> I have tried already the 'PAW like' [p]^-! and also the LaTeX way, but
> everything failed.
> Can anyone tell me how to achieve this ?
>

For ROOT, we decided to choose different escape characters than in PAW.
The reason is that in C++, the symbols []" are frequently used.

To draw symbols pi- the text string should be `p#^-

See http://root.cern.ch/root/html/TPostScript.html
In particular the table of escape characters is described in:
TPostScript::Text

The effect, as described, is only on the Postscript file, not on the
screen.

Rene Brun