out = TeXtoIDL('Gamma^2 + 5N_{ed}') The string out may be used in XYOUTS or other IDL text display routines. It will be an uppercase Gamma, with an exponent of 2, then a plus sign, then an N with the subscript ed.

$Id: textoidl.pro 134 2006-07-07 10:19:08Z navarro $

$Log: textoidl.pro,v $ Revision 1.7 2004/06/15 17:25:54 mcraig Fixed bug in regular expression, changed array notation to square brackets Revision 1.6 2004/01/11 01:49:00 mcraig Changed format of one array to newer [] style to avoidf conflict with function name in astro library. Revision 1.5 2001/11/23 21:10:55 mcraig Added backslash '' to tex sequences in translation table to protect them during regexp search in strsplit. Revision 1.4 1996/06/14 20:00:27 mcraig Updated Copyright info. Revision 1.3 1996/05/09 00:22:17 mcraig Added error handling, cleaned up documentation. Revision 1.2 1996/02/08 18:52:50 mcraig Added ability to use hardware fonts for PostScript device. Revision 1.1 1996/01/31 18:47:37 mcraig Initial revision Copyright (C) 1996 The Regents of the University of California, All Rights Reserved. Written by Matthew W. Craig. See the file COPYRIGHT for restrictions on distrubting this code. This code comes with absolutely NO warranty; see DISCLAIMER for details.

- Use the procedure SHOWTEX to get a list of the available TeX control sequences. - The only hardware font for which translation is available is PostScript. - The only device for which hardware font' translation is available is PostScript.' - The FONT keyword overrides the font selected' by !p.font'