So my guess on scalable fonts was right.
I suspect this is a problem in how the X server is using Type1 fonts, specifically in how it thinks they are encoded. This is why I asked about the locale: \summation is \345 in the Adobe symbol character set and \circleplus is \305 which is a u/case to l/case difference in Latin-1.
I now recall Kurt had similar problems with gsfonts-x11 last August:
Kurt has found a problem with the last two pages of demo(plotmath) on X11 (some symbols either wrong or missing completely).
We found
"-urw-standard symbols l-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-fontspecific"the issue seems to be that gsfonts-x11 has aliases
-adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-fontspecific
"-urw-standard symbols l-regular-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-fontspecific" "-
urw-standard symbols l-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-fontspecific"
Any way to ensure that these fonts are not taken by us?
I don't think so, for if I understand that the alias file is lying about encodings. We specifically added "-adobe-symbol" to overcome problems with abi symbol fonts at ETHZ, but if that package says the urw fonts in `standard symbols l' are in adobe symbol and they are not, you are in trouble.
Brian
On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Deepayan Sarkar wrote:
On Friday 11 March 2005 13:13, Marc Schwartz wrote:On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 17:17 +0000, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:I see you have both a scalable font (the first) and size-specfic fonts. My guess is that the scalable font is not encoded in the same way as the others: can you track down where it is coming from?
Otherwise my list on FC3 is the same as yours (minus the duplicates, which are also puzzling). I have also just checked Exceed, which has the same list plus scalable fonts (and also has
-adobe-symbol-0-0-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-fontspecific -adobe-symbol-0-0-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-sun-fontspecific -adobe-symbol-0-0-normal--0-0-100-100-p-0-adobe-fontspecific -adobe-symbol-0-0-normal--0-0-100-100-p-0-sun-fontspecific -adobe-symbol-0-0-normal--0-0-75-75-p-0-adobe-fontspecific -adobe-symbol-0-0-normal--0-0-75-75-p-0-sun-fontspecific
which caused problems for 2.0.1 with getting bold symbols in some sizes, hence the second bug fix I mentioned).
As a wild guess, do you have a font server as well as local fonts?
I don't think so. My XF86Config-4 file has the line FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server but I don't see any font server package actually installed, and I get
deepayan $ xfsinfo -server localhost:7100 xfsinfo: unable to open server "localhost:7100"
. I do have fontconfig (and a bunch of fonts all over the place), which may explain the duplicates.
[...]
Deepayan, which X server is being used? FC3 (fully updated) is using xorg 6.8.1 if that might make a difference.
I'm using Debian testing, the version of X being 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 (4.3.0 with some modifications). But this is not the issue, since things work fine on another Debian system with the same version of X. It turns out that the problem is with the gsfonts-x11 package. After removing it, I get the correct symbols (with a warning message):
expr = expression(sum(x, 1, n)) plot(1, main = expr, type = "n") text(1, 1, expr)Warning message: X11 used font size 8 when 9 was requested
There's still a bug, but probably not in R. The only external indication I can get that something is wrong is when I compare
$ xfd -fn -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--20-140-100-100-p-107-adobe-fontspecific
and
$ xfd -fn -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--0-0-100-100-p-107-adobe-fontspecific
The second one claims to display
-urw-standard symbols l-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-89-adobe-fontspecific
and in fact does *not* have the summation symbol. (Screenshots at
http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~deepayan/R/xfd-fixed.png and http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~deepayan/R/xfd-scalable.png
). However, the file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/fonts.dir has the line
s050000l.pfb -urw-standard symbols l-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-fontspecific
which suggests that the actual font used is s050000l.pfb, and a font editor shows that it does contain the summation symbol (U+2211).
Deepayan
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