FWIW, this is the final outcome: Chinese, Tibetan, Arabic, Liangshan Yi (basically Chinese + 3 other languages used in Nw and Sw china). Arabic is interesting, it using a right-to-left layout - and it works in R graphics.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/outmodedbonsai/files/snpMatrix%20next/1.19.0.11/China_Geographical_Distribution_Maps.pdf/download ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
