Re: [R] ASCII character set and hyphen

Am 19.11.2007 um 18:43 schrieb Prof Brian Ripley: On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Roland Kaiser wrote: Hi all! To add to my previous posting I want to give some more deatils give a more precise I want to print a hyphen to a pdf() or postscript() device. As the documentaion of postscript says

Re: [R] ASCII character set and hyphen

Am 20.11.2007 um 12:13 schrieb Prof Brian Ripley: On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Roland Kaiser wrote: Am 19.11.2007 um 18:43 schrieb Prof Brian Ripley: On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Roland Kaiser wrote: Hi all! To add to my previous posting I want to give some more deatils give a more precise I want

[R] hypen in pdf

Hi all! I consulted the help pages for postscript(). I noticed the execption for the - sign which is mapped to a minus glyph. How can I define a textstring that contains a hyphen (a short dash) and is applicable with strwidth(). Further I want to print it with postscript() Thanks for any

[R] ASCII character set and hyphen

Hi all! I want to print a hyphen to a pdf() or postscript() device. As the documentaion of postscript says ASCII Character 45(-) is mapped to a minus sign (ASCII Character 95) by default. The advice given is to use \173 for a hyphen. But, the following code produces a curly brace instead of a

[R] dtp point and pdf

Hi all! I encountered precision problems using pdf(). So far, I found out, that pdf() sets the Mediabox to even values in dtp points (1/72 inch). This can be seen in the following example. page.width - 13.1/2.54 # in centimeters page.height - 19/2.54 pdf(file = foo.pdf, width = page.width,

Re: [R] strwidth of bold font

, adj=c(0, 0)) segments(4, 8, 4 + strwidth(testing), 8, col=red) Paul On 30/10/2007, Roland Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Is there a way to get the string width of the bold typefaces? like: strwidth(text, family = serif, font = 2). Thanks Roland

Re: [R] strwidth of bold font

Thanks it does the trick! Perhaps: strwidth(expression(bold(text))) On 30/10/2007, Roland Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Is there a way to get the string width of the bold typefaces? like: strwidth(text, family = serif, font = 2). Thanks Roland