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Re: Formatting Unicode symbol in a label

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On Saturday, January 4, 2014 1:32:56 PM UTC+1, Dan'l B wrote:
> Given a line such as
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> "" u (myDateSP(1,2)):3:((strcol(4) eq "First") ?  ("U+1F311"):1/0) w labels left font "Arial Unicode MS,18" offset -4,0,\
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> How do I insert the Unicode codepoint for a quarter moon symbol (for example)? The above formatting doesn't work.
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> Arial Unicode MS includes that unicode character. Times New Roman PSMT also supports it; both are available on my system.
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> OSX 10.6.8
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> GN   4.6 patchlevel 4
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> pdfcairo installed
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> using PDF terminal

I'll go back to the "help enhanced tex mode", thanks.

I've tried every trick in the book that I could find (man pages, searching, etc): putting the font name in the working directory, fontpath, removing spaces in the name, etc. That said, I am a complete noob on these font issues so it's a steep curve.

Last discovery is that SVG terminal outputs the Moon Phases symbols OK but when I used an online SVG -> PDF converter, the symbols didn't survive. Opening the SVG in Photoshop Elements and printing to PDF locally fails as well. The Aqua terminal handles it nicely and I can then print to PDF but it adds a lot of steps to the workflow when I have many pages.

It's a font one finds searching for Moon Phases font, and I think it dates back a way; a fella over in the Apple discussions ran it through his professional font mgmt tool and cleaned it up and produced various PS, OTF, TTF versions for me; nada...

Research ongoing. :-))

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Formatting Unicode symbol in a label "Dan'l B" <dan.hinckley@gmail.com> - 2014-01-04 04:32 -0800
  Re: Formatting Unicode symbol in a label Karl <mail.kfr@gmx.net> - 2014-01-04 18:16 +0100
  Re: Formatting Unicode symbol in a label Hans-Bernhard Bröker <HBBroeker@t-online.de> - 2014-01-04 19:09 +0100
  Re: Formatting Unicode symbol in a label "Dan'l B" <dan.hinckley@gmail.com> - 2014-01-04 23:56 -0800
    Re: Formatting Unicode symbol in a label Karl <mail.kfr@gmx.net> - 2014-01-05 18:44 +0100
  Re: Formatting Unicode symbol in a label "Dan'l B" <dan.hinckley@gmail.com> - 2014-01-05 00:05 -0800
    Re: Formatting Unicode symbol in a label Karl <mail.kfr@gmx.net> - 2014-01-05 18:28 +0100
  Re: Formatting Unicode symbol in a label "Dan'l B" <dan.hinckley@gmail.com> - 2014-01-05 18:08 -0800
  Re: Formatting Unicode symbol in a label "Dan'l B" <dan.hinckley@gmail.com> - 2014-01-07 08:22 -0800
    Re: Formatting Unicode symbol in a label Ethan A Merritt <merritt@u.washington.edu> - 2014-01-07 13:18 -0800
      Re: Formatting Unicode symbol in a label "Dan'l B" <dan.hinckley@gmail.com> - 2014-01-07 23:59 -0800
  Re: Formatting Unicode symbol in a label "Dan'l B" <dan.hinckley@gmail.com> - 2014-01-07 08:28 -0800

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