I don't think so. I'll give you that it should either be the (number of lines - 1)*spacing or (number of linefeeds)*spacing, but it's correct to count the height of "M" only on the top line.
-pd It is correct as written > On 16 Mar 2016, at 22:39 , ALBERTO VIEIRA FERREIRA MONTEIRO > <[email protected]> wrote: > > There might be a minor typographical error in the documentation of the > function strwidth, namely, from > > ?strwidth > > we get: > > "Note that the ‘height’ of a string is determined only by the number of > linefeeds ("\n") it contains: it is the (number of linefeeds - 1) times the > line spacing plus the height of "M" in the selected font. (...)" > > I think the correct phrasing should be: > > "Note that the ‘height’ of a string is determined only by the number of > linefeeds ("\n") it contains: it is the (number of linefeeds) times the line > spacing plus the (number of linefeeds + 1) times the height of "M" in the > selected font. (...)" > > Alberto Monteiro > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 Email: [email protected] Priv: [email protected] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
