| Of course, the better way to do it would be to generate it as a vector graphic:
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Characters.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document
This is done in the following steps:
- In your graphics application of choice, type a text block "127°.42"
- Convert the text block to an outline
- Explode the outline into discrete paths
- move the ".42" horizontally to align with the degree mark
- Recombine all the elements into a compound path
This will have the advantage that the characters will be correctly rendered wherever they can be displayed, but are not easily editable.
-- Barry
It can be done, but how the characters are rendered depends very much on the application used to render them.
There are a block of unicode characters called "Combining Diacritical Marks" which are used to modify the preceding character. These characters include unicode character U-309A (UTF-8 E3 82 9A) which is a "Combining Katakana-Hirangana Semi-voiced sound mark" (but it looks very much like the degree symbol (U-00B0). When this character is 'typed' after a period, you get a character that is almost, but not quite, aligned:
This is the unicode typed in as characters: 127.゚42
Exactly how this character displays depends on the mail client/word processor/other application used to render it. Here (if the graphic is allowed) is how it renders in TextEdit: <Screen Shot 2013-07-06 at 12.36.08.png> Hope this helps :)
-- Barry
My sundial software is also used for general astronomy calculations.
When I print or display an ephemeris I would like to use not just
the degree (°), prime (′) and double prime symbols (") but those symbols
above the decimal point (.) indicator.
In other words, instead of 127.42° display 127°.42 but have (°) aligned
directly above (.) as this is how it is typecast in old ephemerides.
Anyone know how to do this for not just ° but also ' and "?
I'm just looking for the (preferably unicode) characters not the
technique for converting the numerical value to the string representation.
-thanks
PS - I found this web-site to have lots of good astronomy related
unicode characters:
Astronomical symbols
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_symbols
PPS - I found this web-site
http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/30754/field-calculate-degree-minute-second-in-different-format
which displays a sample as 90°12'28.15" whereas I want 90°12'28".15
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