Re: [R] Wrong symbol rendering in plots (Ubuntu)

2010-06-10 Thread Eduardo J. Chica
Hello, please excuse me if this is a repost, I think I got confused about how to reply. Anyway, I posted the message below about a day and a half ago through Nabble but have not been cleared until today. Here it goes again. Please bear with me I will get better with time. Start of message

Re: [R] Wrong symbol rendering in plots (Ubuntu)

2010-06-07 Thread Yvonnick Noel
Hello Ben, Does the workaround pointed out later in the thread you're responding to (from the last paragraph of a very long 'Note' section of ?pdf) help? Well, I did not try to edit my fonts.conf but I feel this is not a PDF issue. I have no problem to have greek letters correctly rendered

Re: [R] Wrong symbol rendering in plots (Ubuntu)

2010-06-06 Thread Ben Bolker
Yvonnick NOEL yvonnick.noel at uhb.fr writes: Hello, I have the very same problem. Plotting code that used to work before I upgraded to Ubuntu Lucid Lynx does not work anymore. For example: plot(1:10) text(6,4,expression(pi)) The 'pi' greek letter appear as a \neq (different from

Re: [R] Wrong symbol rendering in plots (Ubuntu)

2010-06-05 Thread Yvonnick NOEL
Hello, I have the very same problem. Plotting code that used to work before I upgraded to Ubuntu Lucid Lynx does not work anymore. For example: plot(1:10) text(6,4,expression(pi)) The 'pi' greek letter appear as a \neq (different from symbol). Yvonnick Noel

[R] Wrong symbol rendering in plots (Ubuntu)

2010-06-04 Thread Eduardo J. Chica
Hi I am having problems with the rendering of scientific symbols (mu and degree) in my plots. Whenever I use these symbols they are rendered changed (mu is changed to the proportionality symbol and degree is changed to something resembling a gamma) in the X-device. If I make a pdf of the plot

Re: [R] Wrong symbol rendering in plots (Ubuntu)

2010-06-04 Thread Ben Bolker
Eduardo J. Chica ejchica at gmail.com writes: Hi I am having problems with the rendering of scientific symbols (mu and degree) in my plots. Whenever I use these symbols they are rendered changed (mu is changed to the proportionality symbol and degree is changed to something resembling a

Re: [R] Wrong symbol rendering in plots (Ubuntu)

2010-06-04 Thread Peter Langfelder
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Ben Bolker bol...@ufl.edu wrote: Eduardo J. Chica ejchica at gmail.com writes: Hi I am having problems with the rendering of scientific symbols (mu and degree) in my plots. Whenever I use these symbols they are rendered changed (mu is changed to the

Re: [R] Wrong symbol rendering in plots (Ubuntu)

2010-06-04 Thread Erik Iverson
plot(c(1:10)) when put into a pdf file via pdf() device, will display incorrect symbols in linux pdf viewers (evince, okular). The circles (o) become q, literally the letter q, and lose colors. This issue is already in the Notes section of ?pdf. It remains to be seen if the OP's problem

Re: [R] Wrong symbol rendering in plots (Ubuntu)

2010-06-04 Thread Peter Langfelder
This issue is already in the Notes section of ?pdf.  It remains to be seen if the OP's problem was this exact one, since they didn't specify an example. aahhh, thank you for pointing this out. I never noticed this note. Peter __