ploticus: special characters

## special characters | Welcome Gallery Handbook |
| Manual page for special_characters(PL)

## DESCRIPTION

Text specifications may include embedded special characters.`` These correspond to the PostScript Symbol font and thus may be used in PostScript mode only.`` The PostScript special characters feature was written by Marvin Newhouse.``

If doing PNG, GIF or X11, you can render any of the characters found in the ASCII range 128-255, by embedding the desired ascii value within the text item.

## EXAMPLE

`Title: Cities having average temperature \(<= 20 degrees C`

Here are the available special characters.`` Usage: `\(`AB
(e.g. `\(bu` to get a bullet).``

    AB	 what
    ---      ----------
    AE	 AE
    PL	 Lslash
    OE	 OE
    O/	 Oslash
    ae	 ae
    be	 breve
    bu	 bullet
    ct	 cent
    ^	 circumflex
    dg	 dagger
    dd	 daggerdbl
    um	 dieresis
    dt	 dotaccent
    ui	 dotlessi
    em	 emdash
    en	 endash
    !!	 exclamdown
    ff	 ff
    Fi	 ffi
    Fl	 ffl
    fi	 fi
    fl	 fl
    ss	 germandbls
    ga	 grave
    d<	 guillemotleft
    d>	 guillemotright
    hy	 hyphen
    lb	 lb
    lc	 lc
    lf	 lf
    lk	 lk
    Pl	 lslash
    lt	 lt
    mc	 macron
    ob	 ob
    oe	 oe
    og	 ogonek
    o/	 oslash
    pp	 paragraph
    pm	 perthousand
    ??	 questiondown
    lq	 quotedblleft
    rq	 quotedblright
    n'	 quotesingle
    rb	 rb
    rc	 rc
    rf	 rf
    ri	 ring
    rk	 rk
    rn	 rn
    rt	 rt
    ru	 ru
    sc	 Section
    sq	 sq
    ps	 sterling
    ~	 tilde
    ul	 ul
    vr	 vr
    yi	 yen
    *d	 delta
    *e	 epsilon
    *f	 phi
    *g	 gamma
    *y	 eta
    *i	 iota
    *k	 kappa
    *l	 lambda
    *m	 mu
    *n	 nu
    *o	 omicron
    *p	 pi
    *h	 theta
    *r	 rho
    *s	 sigma
    *t	 tau
    *u	 upsilon
    *w	 omega
    *c	 xi
    *q	 psi
    *z	 zeta
    or	 bar
    ap	 similar
    fm	 minute
    <=	 lessequal
    if	 infinity
    $D	 florin
    dm	 diamond
    bs	 heart
    <>	 arrowboth
    <-	 arrowleft
    ua	 arrowup
    ->	 arrowright
    da	 arrowdown
    de	 degree
    +-	 plusminus
    sd	 second
    >=	 greaterequal
    mu	 multiply
    pt	 proportional
    pd	 partialdiff
    	 bullet
    di	 divide
    !=	 notequal
    ==	 equivalence
    ~=	 approxequal
    cr	 carriagereturn
    al	 aleph
    ax	 circlemultiply
    a+	 circleplus
    es	 emptyset
    ca	 intersection
    cu	 union
    sp	 propersuperset
    ip	 reflexsuperset
    !s	 notsubset
    sb	 propersubset
    ib	 reflexsubset
    mo	 element
    !m	 notelement
    gr	 gradient
    rg	 registerserif
    co	 copyrightserif
    tm	 trademarkserif
    sr	 radical
    m.	 dotmath
    no	 logicalnot
    an	 logicaland
    lo	 logicalor
    io	 arrowdblboth
    <:	 arrowdblleft
    lh	 arrowdblleft
    :>	 arrowdblright
    rh	 arrowdblright
    l<	 angleleft
    r>	 angleright
    is	 integral
    fa	 universal
    te	 existential
    **	 asteriskmath
    pl	 plus
    \-	 minus
    sl	 slash
    eq	 equal
    *A	 Alpha
    *B	 Beta
    *X	 Chi
    *D	 Delta
    *E	 Epsilon
    *F	 Phi
    *G	 Gamma
    *Y	 Eta
    *I	 Iota
    *K	 Kappa
    *L	 Lambda
    *M	 Mu
    *N	 Nu
    *O	 Omicron
    *P	 Pi
    *H	 Theta
    *R	 Rho
    *S	 Sigma
    *T	 Tau
    *U	 Upsilon
    ts	 sigma1
    *W	 Omega
    *C	 Xi
    *Q	 Psi
    *Z	 Zeta
    tf	 therefore
    bt	 perpendicular
    \_	 underscore
    *a	 alpha
    *b	 beta
    *x	 chi

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