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Re: alpha using Symbol

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From Peter Billam <peter@www.pjb.com.au>
Subject Re: alpha using Symbol
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Date 2015-04-19 02:59 +0000
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On 2015-04-19, Peter Billam <peter@www.pjb.com.au> wrote:
> Greetings.  I want to print an alpha character.
> For this, IIUC, I need the Symbol encoding and then:  (\141) show

Apologies :-(  Symbol is not an encoding, it's a font !

  /Symbol findfont 30 scalefont setfont 200 200 moveto (\141) show

works fine.  Sorry for the noise...

Regards,  Peter

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Peter Billam    www.pjb.com.au    www.pjb.com.au/comp/contact.html

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alpha using Symbol Peter Billam <peter@www.pjb.com.au> - 2015-04-19 02:00 +0000
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