Re: Glyphs of Fonts for Special Characters in Octave Fail

[eric]

On 12/31/2017 03:29 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> An alternate question...can anyone using the symbolic package correctly 
> see then entire sqrt (radical) symbol from:
> symx x
> sqrt(x)
> sqrt(1/x)
> 1/sqrt(x)
> If "yes", which version of octave (and what operating system or 
> distribution are  you using) and which font is used in your terminal 
> window was used?
> I suppose a "no" answer with that same information would be useful. I'm 
> wondering if there might be someone this works for, and if it does, what 
> might be in common or different than my version.


I am running GNU Octave, version 4.0.0 on Ubuntu 16.04.

Here is what my command window looks like if I follow from above 
(substituting symx to syms :-) ) and copying and pasting into the email 
body.

>> pkg load symbolic
>> symx x
error: 'symx' undefined near line 1 column 1
>> syms x
OctSymPy v2.2.4: this is free software without warranty, see source.
Initializing communication with SymPy using a popen2() pipe.
Some output from the Python subprocess (pid 3694) might appear next.
Python 2.7.12 (default, Nov 20 2017, 18:23:56)
[GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> >>>
OctSymPy: Communication established.  SymPy v0.7.6.1.
>> sqrt(x)
ans = (sym)

    ___
  ╲╱ x

>> sqrt(1/x)
ans = (sym)

      ___
     ╱ 1
    ╱  ─
  ╲╱   x

>> 1/sqrt(x)
ans = (sym)

    1
  ─────
    ___
  ╲╱ x

>>

This is different that what my command window actually looks like.  I 
attached a screen shot of what that looks like and you can see that the 
radical symbol only shows the horizontal portion and not the complete 
symbol.  I am not sure why it shows up differently from a copy and paste.


Regards,

Eric

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