Date:         Tue, 19 Mar 2002 09:38:26 -0800
Reply-To:     Cassell.David@EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         "David L. Cassell" <Cassell.David@EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV>
Subject:      Re: Picture format,
              is it possible to put numeric character in the message part.
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Peter Crawford <peter.crawford@DB.COM> replied:
> I don't know the limits of ps fonts, but it might be worth
> investigating the ps language to discover whether you
> can "pass-thru" the superscript in some other way that
> does not involve number characters.

Umm, that's a bit ickier than I would recommend.  To 'pass through'
a superscript as PostScript code, you basically have to have a
chunk of PostScript which will:
[1] remember the current font with 'currentfont'
[2] create a new font with 'makefont'
[3] top-align [use: 'gsave', 'moveto', 'charpath', and other commands]
[4] shrink the font by, say, 0.4
[5] print
[6] restore alignment and original font

May I just say.. ick.

> If the superscript 2 is available as another character of
> the symbol set, find it by trial-and-error, printing out a charset

A [hopefully] much better solution.

> (code to generate this is available in sas-l archives)
> or even (last resort) read the documentation. ;-)

No!  Not the documentation!  :-)

"Real men don't read manuals!"  - Richard Holmes 'Pete' Hawkins, Ph.D.


David
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David Cassell, CSC
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Senior computing specialist
mathematical statistician