Thanks for your help with this behaviour. I have tried a few other things, and it looks like it is an issue of using the clipboard to copy it in rather than saving to a file then copying.
A bit odd, but maybe nothing to do with R! Matt Redding -----Original Message----- From: Redding, Matthew Sent: Saturday, 10 January 2004 2:09 PM To: 'Prof Brian Ripley' Subject: RE: [R] Letter Spacing Hi All, Thanks to everyone who answered the question! Just a little more information on the behaviour. I re-installed the latest version of R, and re-installed version 1.51. I ran the r program that produces the graph in each of the versions. The latest version produces compressed text when they are inserted in Word 2000, while the older version did not. I am pretty sure it is a real effect, since it has occured with new installations, the same r program, and the same version of windows and word. I have only tested it with enhanced metafont files, have yet to try it with pdf. Using pdf is a good call though....usually fixes a lot of word bad behaviour. Thanks, Matt Redding -----Original Message----- From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 9 January 2004 6:33 PM To: Redding, Matthew Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [R] Letter Spacing We are not aware of any related changes between R 1.5.1 and R 1.8.1, and no one else has reported a problem. Text strings in R graphics are plotted directly in the font specified and not as individual letters, so there is nothing you can do about letter spacing in R. I would first cross-check that the same fonts have been used in both systems (and that includes exact sizes of fonts), then check that a metafile viewer (Windows XP comes with one, for example) shows the difference. I am afraid that most of the problems we have investigated with metafiles were traced to bugs in Word. On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Redding, Matthew wrote: > Hi All, > > I've been trying to make some adjustments to the graphics in a paper I wrote some > time ago, for which the comments have been > returned from the reviewers. > > I always use R for publication graphics...I think it does the best job available, > for the things I am interested in. > > I could not get my graphics in R 181 to look the same as the old ones (completed 8 > months ago), > the text seemed a bit squashed > together when I copied graphics as meta-files into word. > > I have found that by re-installing version 1.51, the graphics look as nice as the > previous ones, with the text nicely spaced. > > Is there a "par" parameters that will adjust the letter spacing, so I can use > version 181 for this type of job? > > Thanks, > > Matt R. Redding > Senior Environmental Scientist, Intensive livestock and sheep > Agency for Food and Fibre Sciences > Department of Primary Industries > > Telephone 07 4688 1372 Fax 07 4688 1192 > Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/ilsu/ Call Centre 13 25 23 > > ********************************DISCLAIMER******************...{{dropped}} > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ********************************DISCLAIMER******************...{{dropped}} ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
