Yes. To obtain the other mu (actually the micro symbol), you can use
194 181 { a.
µ
It's safest not to use copy-paste since the characters look identical.
Copy-paste works; it's just confusing.
This character can be represented in a pdf with the standard
encoding because it is part of the extended ASCII character set
(specifically Windows ANSI extended ASCII), which consists of the first
512 (2^8) unicode characters. For any other character, J will simply
take the unicode code point mod 512, yielding an essentially random
extended unicode character. Embedding actual unicode in a pdf is
apparently something of a dark art--I'm looking into it but can't
promise any results.
Marshall
On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 03:43:14PM -0500, J. Patrick Harrington wrote:
>
> OK, on this linux box I can do as you said and copy the mu
> a. i. 'μ' from a webpage,
> and I get 206 188 as you did.
> When I put it in the caption, it shows correctly as μ
> when I use wd 'show' but when I generate the .pdf plot, it appears
> as 1/4,
> same as what you find. This is J801 Linux 64.
>
> Patrick
>
> On Tue, 18 Nov 2014, J. Patrick Harrington wrote:
> >
> >When I do a. i. 'mu' (can't type the mu on this limux box),
> >I get 194 181
> > This is true on my Macbook Pro for both J602 & J802.
> >
> >On Tue, 18 Nov 2014, Marshall Lochbaum wrote:
> >>To clarify, I'm working on Linux.
> >>
> >>Marshall
> >>
> >>On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 03:09:36PM -0500, Marshall Lochbaum wrote:
> >>>That's weird--it definitely doesn't work on J7, for a standard unicode
> >>>(UTF8) μ. The character ¼ shows up instead, and is represented in the
> >>>pdf by \274.
> >>>
> >>>This is the UTF encoding of the character μ. You can easily copy-paste
> >>>the character from, for instance, the wikipedia page "Mu (letter)", and
> >>>a decent text editor should also provide some method of entering it
> >>>directly. Is the one you get with opt+m on a Mac different?
> >>> a. i. 'μ'
> >>>206 188
> >>>
> >>>The pdf my version of plot outputs uses the "WinAnsiEncoding" to encode
> >>>letters. This is hardcoded in jzplot.ijs and the windows encoding
> >>>doesn't appear to have greek characters. I assume your output uses a
> >>>different encoding.
> >>>
> >>>It would be really nice to convince plot to put arbitrary LaTeX in its
> >>>captions, but I don't know enough about pdfs or LaTeX to accomplish
> >>>this.
> >>>
> >>>Marshall
> >>>
> >>>On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 12:36:33PM -0500, J. Patrick Harrington wrote:
> >>>> Marshall,
> >>>>
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