Howdy Folks,
Anyone know the octal codes for Maori Language character, i.e. a vowel with a line overtop…
Thanks!!
-jose
Hi @jocabo,
Are you using GMT or PyGMT?
The overview for octal codes of characters supported by GMT or PyGMT can be found 11. Chart of Octal Codes for Characters — GMT 6.5.0 documentation or Supported Encodings and Non-ASCII Characters — PyGMT. However, I can not find the desired letter in this table. Reading here Māori language - Wikipedia, it seems like there is no octal code for this letter. But maybe there is an ISO/IEC 8859 code Supported Encodings and Non-ASCII Characters — PyGMT.
Another option would be trying to create the letter using @! which can combine two characters (please see text — GMT 6.5.0 documentation): @!\225a (the octal code \255 gives a high dash).
In PyGMT it’s possible to directly using the letter:
import pygmt
size = 1
fig = pygmt.Figure()
fig.basemap(region=[-size, size] * 2, projection=f"X{size * 2}c", frame=0)
fig.text(x=0, y=0, text="ā")
fig.show()
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Hi @jocabo ,
What you are wanting are macrons over the vowels. These are not available in the character sets that come with GMT.
You can combine characters as @yvonnefroehlich suggested. Another option might be to insert LaTeX: 13. Using LaTeX Expressions in GMT — GMT 6.5.0 documentation - you can do macrons with LaTeX.
Tongan (and many Pacific languages) have similar issues. Many, many years ago I provided the TO language configuration for GMT, and from memory ran into this then. It would be nice if GMT supported Unicode, but I imagine that would require a lot of work to implement.
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It surely would be nice. But the biggest problem, I guess, would be convincing Adobe to add Unicode support to PostScript.
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Thanks for the responses everyone…! (@timhume @Joaquim @yvonnefroehlich)
I’m not on PyGMT, I am just an old dinosaur using oldschool GMT who lives in perpetual fear of every update…!
Anyway, @yvonnefroehlich 's suggestion for the @! trick with \255 worked!
I was making a map for a paper my wife is co-authoring in an indigenous studies journal, so it was important to get this detail right …
Thanks again, y’all are awesome!
-jose
Still doing Tsunamis?
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tsunamis and other coastal hazards all the way… (to my grave…)