Hi Uwe,
Thanks for your mail. I see it different: yes, Left / right adjustemnt seems to be perfectly OK. But at axis 1 with las=1, it's not Left / right adjustement what is needed here. Here the text needs to be right adjusted, and the (one) adj= par should determine the vertical alignment. It is a bit confusing, but for mtext, the distance to the axis is done via line= and adj= moves ALONG the axis, whatever las= says. I agree that it would be more flexible and logical to also have the 2 element form of adj=c(horizontal, vertical) here, but I fear that this creates a lot of incompatibilities with existing code and with S+. Best Jens > Left / right adjustemnt seems to be perfectly OK. > The thing that matters is centering "several lines" to the specified > ("at=") location. > In fact, mtext() is not centering but bottom-aligning by adding a > negative distance that looks OK for one line in the default font size, > but not in most other cases. > > Hence this is the same as Paul Murrell's PR#1659 ("mtext() alignment of > perpendicular text"). Fixing this, and/or improving mtext()'s "adj" > argument to accept 2 dimensions is desirable, but might be not that > easy... I'll take a look during the next days, but nothing promised. -- ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel