Tecplot 360 Problem with Subscripts, etc.

[xinmude]

Dear Everyone:

I have used "Tecplot" for a while and recently shifted to "Tecplot 360" as a consequence of migrating from a Sun to a Mac machine.

Earlier I created many LAY files under Tecplot in which I used a fair amount of subscripts, superscripts and Greek letters whose font identifiers are, respectively, underscore ("_"), caret ("^") and back quote ("`"), each affecting only one letter immediately after the identifier.

The new "Tecplot 360" sometimes recognizes those old font identifiers in my old LAY files and sometimes doesn't, in which case, I have to use the new method, i.e., ,  and <Greek></Greek> to create these fonts. These are apparently more tiresome than the old method.

The question: Is there a way to let "Tecplot 360" recognize the old font identifiers and let me continue to create these fonts in the old way?

Thanks for reading and replying!

--Roland

[jim]

Roland:

Look Under File -> Preferences -> Miscellaneous and tick the
"Allow Old Text Formatting" box. (See <a href="http://www.tecplot.com/showcase/contours/issue_29/article05.htm">here</a>)

If you save preferences, this will add:

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$!COMPATIBILITY ALLOWOLDTEXTFORMATTING = YES

to your tecplot.cfg file.

[xinmude]

Jim:

Thank you very much for your help!

I first asked my system administrator (SA) to add that line to the tecplot.cfg file, but the preference had not been changed when I restarted Tecplot. Later, I asked the SA to open the Tecplot and do it through the menus and save it. Now it works.

Thanks again!

---Roland

Roland:

Look Under File -> Preferences -> Miscellaneous and tick the
"Allow Old Text Formatting" box. (See <a href="http://www.tecplot.com/showcase/contours/issue_29/article05.htm">here</a>)

If you save preferences, this will add:

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$!COMPATIBILITY ALLOWOLDTEXTFORMATTING = YES

to your tecplot.cfg file.

[xinmude]

Now my Tecplot is upgraded to Tecplot 360 EX 2015 R2. How can I make ^ (for superscript), _ (for subscript), ` (for Greek letter), and ~ (for math) in my old LAY files work? Any solution?

Thank you,

Roland

Roland:

Look Under File -> Preferences -> Miscellaneous and tick the
"Allow Old Text Formatting" box. (See <a href="http://www.tecplot.com/showcase/contours/issue_29/article05.htm">here</a>)

If you save preferences, this will add:

Code: Select all

$!COMPATIBILITY ALLOWOLDTEXTFORMATTING = YES

to your tecplot.cfg file.