including special characters on embedded components

Posted on 2008-11-18 13:15 By Carrie Howells (3)

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I'm playing around with the embedded components, mostly buttons, sliders, labels, and plots.

Is it possible to include special characters such as omega or pi or beta on the label, or as the text on a button, or in the legend name of a plot? If so, how?

Special characters in components

Comment on 2008-11-18 14:56 from Robert Israel ( Maple Rating 4

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I don't see any provision to change the font in a component label. But via Unicode, all sorts of alphabets are included. For example, using Character Map in Windows I was able to put Greek and Hebrew letters in a button label.

I've been able to copy and

Comment on 2008-11-18 15:04 from Carrie Howells (3)

I've been able to copy and paste a character from elsewhere in the document and have it appear properly on a label and on a button. Tedious, but do-able. It would be nice if I could type the correct sequence of characters, or insert from a palette. But at least copy and paste works for these components.

The only one I haven't figured out yet is using special characters in a plot legend string like

Do(%Plot0 = plot(sin(%Slider0*x), x=0 .. 2*Pi, y=-1..1, legend="sin(ω*t)"))

The omega doesn't display correctly on the legend--it reads "sin(ω *t).

Any ideas?

legend

Comment on 2008-11-18 15:15 from Robert Israel ( Maple Rating 4

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The legend doesn't have to be a string: it can be a mathematical expression such as sin(omega*t).

Thanks!

Comment on 2008-11-18 15:20 from Carrie Howells (3)

That's awesome, and way better! I didn't realize that the legend entries didn't have to be strings.

Thanks, worked like a charm!

Carrie:)