Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Cecil Westerhof Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: How to get a copyright symbol Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 11:47:11 +0200 Organization: Decebal Computing Lines: 42 Message-ID: <878vfvqz1c.fsf@Compaq.site> References: <877gvgs0fo.fsf@Compaq.site> <1hkvqq54ngzdv$.1ej49r5a0q940.dlg@40tude.net> <34a9bc59-001e-404f-b98e-229efbf2fa9d@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lYLrXPFpjyZ8237ODaoN+w.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:qQKmV0ReNQu0XuMJmXoglAfhVdw= X-Homepage: http://www.decebal.nl/ Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.postscript:729 Op zondag 10 jun 2012 10:20 CEST schreef gernot hoffmann: > Am Sonntag, 10. Juni 2012 07:12:57 UTC+2 schrieb tlvp: >> On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 22:19:23 +0200, Cecil Westerhof wrote: >> >>> For displaying a bullet I use \267. But I also want to display a >>> copyright symbol. How to do this? Also, is there a list with all the >>> symbols to use? >> >> Search for COPYRIGHT on the page , or on >> : >> >>> U+00A9 © c2 a9 © © COPYRIGHT SIGN >> >> The decimal counterpart of the copyright hex code thus being that 169, I >> guess you'd use \169 -- neet? >> >> Cheers, -- tlvp >> >> [ PS: search for [ unicode character table ] for more such lists. ] >> -- >> Avant de repondre, jeter la poubelle, SVP. > > This is a working PostScript example. It contains as well > a link to a doc with octal code etc. By me it does not work for all the characters you used, except the copyright symbol. But that was where I was after, so for the moment I am happy. ;-} By the way: with Helvetica bullet did not work, with Bookman it did (and also the copyright symbol). Is it possible to make it a procedure with takes the font-name? Then you do not to rewrite for every font that you are going to use. Why is ISOLatin1Encoding not the default encoding? -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof