Tips for Xmgrace

Editing

• Beware: there is no Undo option but Reverse to saved so it is better to often save your working document.
• copy-paste within different boxes does not seem to be possible, one can open a terminal for temporary paste.

Typography

• More general shortcuts for \f{Police} (have to check this)

\0  Times-Roman
\1  bold
\2  italic
\3  bold-italic
\4  Helvetica
\5  Helvetica - bold
\6  Helvetica - italic
\7  Helvetica - bold-italic
\8  greek
\9  symbol (or \x )

• Shortcuts for text manipulation

\+  increase size
\-  decrease size
\b  backspace (size of previous character)
\c  begin using upper 128 characters of set
\C  stop  using upper 128 characters of set
\u  begin underline
\U  stop underline
\s  subscript
\S  superscript
\N  normal
\n  newline
\f{} get back to original 
\u  underline text
\o  overline text

Examples:

• writing <math>\hbar</math>

h\v{0.65}\h{-0.5}\z{0.6}_\v{}\h{}\z{}