On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, peter dalgaard wrote:
On Aug 19, 2010, at 9:15 AM, Jari Oksanen wrote:
The X11(type = 'cairo') shows the problem with example(points);
TestChars(font=5). However, there is no problem with the default device
(quartz), nor with the default X11() which has type = 'Xlib' (unlike
documented in ?X11: 'cairo' is available but 'Xlib' still used).
What ever this is worth of (if this is worthless, I'll surely hear about
it).
Well, maybe not worthless, but the X11 setup on Mac is poor in
general. type="Xlib" appears plainly not to work, and even
disregarding the pi issue, the rotated y-axis labels come out pretty
ugly. This is why quartz is now the default on OSX.
The even more serious issue under cairo of confusing style and weight
is discussed on ?X11.
BTW, it seems that the standard X11 "Symbol","Regular" font is
simply absent on OSX. I can't get fc-match to list it, anyway.
R's X11(type='cairo') device is using a version of cairographics
compiled by Simon which includes a static build of fontconfig. So it
is not really 'OSX'! I'm guessing you are using
/usr/local/bin/fc-match which AFAIK also Simon's.
It is also not using pango, and so not selecting fonts the same way as
on Linux.
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