On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Renaud Lancelot wrote: > A radical solution is to edit the file .../etc/Rdevga and to change > the definition of the first set of fonts, e.g. > > # TT Arial : plain > # TT Arial : bold > # TT Arial : italic > # TT Arial : bold&italic > > TT Times New Roman : plain > TT Times New Roman : bold > TT Times New Roman : italic > TT Times New Roman : bold&italic
He is on Linux, so that will not work. We have not been told the graphics device, but both postscript() and pdf() allow the device to be set when the device is opened, and that works for me: pdf(family="serif") example(xyplot) dev.off() > > Best, > > Renaud > > 2006/6/30, Deepayan Sarkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On 6/29/06, McClatchie, Sam (PIRSA-SARDI) >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Background: >>> OS: Linux Ubuntu Dapper 6.06 >>> release: R 2.3.1 >>> editor: GNU Emacs 21.4.1 >>> front-end: ESS 5.2.3 >>> --------------------------------- >>> >>> Colleagues >>> >>> I have a rather complicated trellis plot that a journal editor has >>> requested I edit and change all the fonts to times. >>> >>> I'd like to change all fonts globally for the plot, as in >>> par(family="serif") for non-trellis plots. Various experiments with >>> trellis.par.set after reading the help page have not solved the problem for >>> me. Even doing the local change >>> trellis.par.set(par.xlab.text=list(cex=1.5, family="serif")) does not >>> change the font to times for xlab (I mean my syntax is wrong, not that >>> there is a bug). >>> >>> So I'm obviously misreading the help page or just missing the meaning. Any >>> suggestions? >> >> Lattice uses 'fontfamily' rather than 'family' (borrowed from grid, I >> suppose). I don't think there's a way to set the family globally. You >> might try >> >> trellis.par.set(grid.pars = list(fontfamily = "serif")) >> >> but I'm not sure if that will work. >> >> -Deepayan >> >> ______________________________________________ >> [email protected] mailing list >> https://stat.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 ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
