[Blindmath] the unit circle - SVGDraw01

[David Engebretson Jr.]

super cool!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Baldwin" <baldwin at dickbaldwin.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 9:22 AM
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] the unit circle - SVGDraw01


> John Gardner has pointed that since you can copy and paste into the text
> field for Text to be displayed in the drawing, you can create special
> symbols in another program such as MS Word and paste them into that text
> field. I just confirmed that I can create a square root symbol in my old 
> MS
> Word 2003 program, copy it to the clipboard, paste it into the SVGDraw01
> text box for Text, and draw it. Presumably I could also do this for any of
> the other special symbols that are available as well.
>
> There may also be other ways to enter the symbol into the text field for
> Text, but right now I don't know what they are. For example, in MS Word,
> you can enter special symbols by selecting them from a menu or typing the
> character code in a particular format.
>
> If anyone knows how to do that for an SWT text field, please post
> instructions.
>
> So, the answer is, yes, you can draw a square root symbol on a drawing
> using SVGDraw01.
>
> Dick Baldwin
>
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Richard Baldwin 
> <baldwin at dickbaldwin.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi David,
>>
>> You can draw anything that can be drawn with lines, rectangles, circles,
>> ellipses, polylines, polygons, SVG paths, or text.
>>
>> The only symbols that are available are the typical keyboard characters
>> treated as text. However, if you can construct your own square-root 
>> symbol
>> using three lines or preferably as a polyline, you can save it as an svg
>> file and import it later when you need it. After importing it, you can
>> scale and translate it to the size and location that it needs to be.
>>
>> If you want an arrow head on the pointing line, you might also consider
>> creating it as a polyline, saving it as an svg file, and then importing,
>> rotating, scaling, and translating it later to the size and location that
>> it needs to be.
>>
>> Dick Baldwin
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 5:51 PM, David Engebretson Jr. <
>> davide at soundandscience.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Dick,
>>>
>>> Do you think a simple drawing of the unit circle could be drawn with 
>>> your
>>> program?  Are symbols like the square root available?
>>>
>>> For example, I can draw a plus sign as the x/y axis and have a circle
>>> with radius of 1 concentric with it, but can i label where the square 
>>> root
>>> of 2 is and have an arrow pointing to the lines created at the square 
>>> root
>>> of two?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> David
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
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