writing single-storey ɑ in Gnuplot graph title? - plot

How can I write single-storey ɑ (The first letter in English) in Gnuplot graph title?
I am always get "a" (double-story) in Gnuplot plot title?

Suggesting to use the Greek letter alpha "ɑ" is not a good solution.
The correct answer is that the shape of the "a" glyph is dependent on the font, not the encoding. Unicode codepoints only specify what character is to be drawn, not what shape it has.

It depends on the terminal you want to use, but probably the most straightforward solution would be to use proper encoding and paste the required character directly:
set encoding utf8
set term wxt font "Times,12"
set title 'ɑ'
plot x
EDIT:
the special character ɑ can be also specified (for example in the interactive Gnuplot console) in terms of its UTF8 representation (two octal numbers) as:
set title '\311\221'

I only use lubunutu and do not use ubunutu.
In lubuntu CharacterMap utility exists and it can be used from accessory category.
On ubuntu, the same tool exists.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CharacterMap
I could copy and paste Lattin Small Letter alpha "ɑ" to terminal.
(Note that is not literally single-storey version of a).
As Ethan wrote use of Lattin Small Letter alpha "ɑ" is not correct in literal sense but I think this is possible workaround.
Correct solution is use font with single-storey a like Futura font.
Free Futura font seem to be available from
http://www.webpagepublicity.com/free-fonts-f4.html#Free%20Fonts

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Insert specific unicode symbols inside values of data.frame variable

In my data.frame I would like to add two variables, "A" and "B", whose values contain respectively an n with the i subscript and an n with the s subscript.
As I have understood so far, it's not possible to specify an expression for the values of a variable, and hence to add special characters it's necessary to use unicode symbols. Some of this unicodes work in R, as for example the greek letter "mu", identified with the unicode \U00B5, or numeric subscripts, as you can see in this reprex in your R console:
x <- data.frame("A" = c("\U00B5"),
"B" = c("B\U2082"))
print(x)
These unicodes work also if I decide to put this variable in a ggplot() object, because I will display the correct symbol ("mu" for example) on the axis text or the facets.
The problem is that when I do the same for the subscripts of i (unicode: \U1D62) and s (unicode: \u209B), R doesn't recognise the unicode and prints the whole string inside the variable name.
Do you know how I can resolve this issue and if this unicode works on every operating system?
Thanks
Is there a reason you can't use the expression() function? It seems this would solve your problem (at least concerning greek letters).
Here is the site i used to learn how to input greek letters into my R/ggplot-legends.
https://stats.idre.ucla.edu/r/codefragments/greek_letters/
Altough it is not exactly the answer you look for, i still hope it helps!
If you are on Windows 10 recently updated with as of April 2018 Update:
Use the Windows key + '.' (e.g. hold together Windows Key plus period) in your text editor. This brings up Microsoft Emoji keyboard.
Select the Greek letters variable for your script.
The R Console will not accept the Greek letters as variables directly but only the from the editor script. Some of the Greek letters don't translate to English (like "µ" or "ß".) You can paste and copy them from ls() output to access. You may be able to use some math symbols as well for variable names. I can't however, get this to work with source(). That must be a text encoding problem.

FontForge Script: how to add kerning between two glyphs to a font

I would like to add kerning between the letter A and itself so that the two letters stack on top of each other, over many font files.
How would I achieve this using a FontForge script?
Here is a script to add kerning between the letter A and itself to a font that previously had no kerning table:
(1) Open your font
Open($1);
(2) Add a lookup with the gpos_pair type, and "kern" as feature, then create a subtable inside
AddLookup("kern","gpos_pair",0,[["kern",[["latn",["dflt"]]]]]);
AddLookupSubtable("kern","kern-1");
(3) Select your first glyph by name
Select("A");
(4) Add kerning from this glyph to another glyph:
AddPosSub("kern-1",GlyphInfo("Name"),0,0,-2883,0,0,0,0,0);
(5) Generate your font
Generate($1:r + "-kerned.ttf");
I am adding this here because I could not find a single example of AddPosSub for character pairs (and it is really difficult to figure out where all the 0 should go without randomly trying.

how to put y axis greek letters in Veusz plot?

I want to put Capitalomega with index DE and k label:
and then ı want to show on the y axis label? How to do them?
Generally you can use tex symbols in Veusz. Therefore, you can write \Omega_{DE} and \Omega_{k} for your request. See details here (Sec. 2.4 Text).
Veusz understands a limited set of LaTeX-like formatting for text. There are some differences (for example, "10^23" puts the 2 and 3 into superscript), but it is fairly similar. You should also leave out the dollar signs. Veusz supports superscripts ("^"), subscripts ("_"), brackets for grouping attributes are "{" and "}".
Supported LaTeX symbols include: \AA, \Alpha, \Beta, \Chi, \Delta, \Epsilon, \Eta, \Gamma, \Iota, \Kappa, \Lambda, \Mu, \Nu, \Omega, \Omicron, \Phi, \Pi, \Psi, \Rho, \Sigma, \Tau, \Theta, \Upsilon, \Xi, \Zeta, \alpha, \approx, \ast, \asymp, \beta, \bowtie, \bullet, \cap, \chi, \circ, \cup, \dagger, \dashv, \ddagger, \deg, \delta, \diamond, \divide, \doteq, \downarrow, \epsilon, \equiv, \eta, \gamma, \ge, \gg, \in, \infty, \int, \iota, \kappa, \lambda, \le, \leftarrow, \lhd, \ll, \models, \mp, \mu, \neq, \ni, \nu, \odot, \omega, \omicron, \ominus, \oplus, \oslash, \otimes, \parallel, \perp, \phi, \pi, \pm, \prec, \preceq, \propto, \psi, \rhd, \rho, \rightarrow, \sigma, \sim, \simeq, \sqrt, \sqsubset, \sqsubseteq, \sqsupset, \sqsupseteq, \star, \stigma, \subset, \subseteq, \succ, \succeq, \supset, \supseteq, \tau, \theta, \times, \umid, \unlhd, \unrhd, \uparrow, \uplus, \upsilon, \vdash, \vee, \wedge, \xi, \zeta. Please request additional characters if they are required (and exist in the unicode character set). Special symbols can be included directly from a character map.
Other LaTeX commands are supported. "\" breaks a line. This can be used for simple tables. For example "{a\b} {c\d}" shows "a c" over "b d". The command "\frac{a}{b}" shows a vertical fraction a/b.
Also supported are commands to change font. The command "\font{name}{text}" changes the font text is written in to name. This may be useful if a symbol is missing from the current font, e.g. "\font{symbol}{g}" should produce a gamma. You can increase, decrease, or set the size of the font with "\size{+2}{text}", "\size{-2}{text}", or "\size{20}{text}". Numbers are in points.
Various font attributes can be changed: for example, "\italic{some italic text}" (or use "\textit" or "\emph"), "\bold{some bold text}" (or use "\textbf") and "\underline{some underlined text}".
Example text could include "Area / \pi (10^{-23} cm^{-2})", or "\pi\bold{g}".
Veusz plots these symbols with Qt's unicode support. You can also include special characters directly, by copying and pasting from a character map application. If your current font does not contain these symbols then you may get a box character.
In addition to the answer OmG posted, you can also directly enter the character (via a character map application or copy and paste), as Veusz supports unicode characters.

Adding glyphs to Fontforge

When I open Fontforge to create a new font, it only lists a limited set of characters / glyphs. In the font I create, I need some glyphs that are missing from that default set, e.g. "single right-pointing angle quotation mark" (U+203A) and "single left-pointing angle quotation mark" (U+2039).
How can I add "slots" for these glyphs, or rather:
What is the proper way to add glyphs that are defined in the Unicode table?
Ah, well, just go to Encoding > Add encoding slot, then there will be a dialog to set how many slot(s) you want to add.
Ah, well, just go to Encoding > Reencode and choose an encoding that contains the relevant slots.

How to convert all color code #XXYYZZ to shorter 3 character version #XYZ of whole css file?

How to convert all color code #XXYYZZ to shorter 3 character version #XYZ of whole css file?
You can convert to the shorter 3-character version only colors expressed this way: #RRGGBB where the first and the second characters are the same, the third and fourth characters are the same and the fifth and sixth characters are the same.
So: #CC00DD can be shortened to #C0D while #CC01DD cannot.
A quick way to shorten all the possible colors in a CSS file is to open the file with an editor supporting regular expressions (for example kwrite or kate on linux) and replace (ignoring case) the following regular expression:
#([0-9A-F])\1([0-9A-F])\2([0-9A-F])\3
with this substitution text:
#\1\2\3
Tested with kate.
Otherwise you can use this tool where, if you only need to compress color codes, you can uncheck all the options except the "Compress color codes where possible".
If you are just interested in minimizing the download size for your CSS file, you might use one of the many CSS compressors available (such as this one). And be sure to do the same with your javascript files while you are at it.
You can only shorten CSS colour codes to a 3 character version if they take the form
#XXYYZZ
Then they can be abbreviated
#XYZ
There are only 216 different codes which meet this requirement.

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