Almost all devices do support clipping, so this is rather a minority
interest.
The person who AFAIK worte that comment and designed the clipping in
the engine is Paul Murrell. He has been on summer vacation, but it
looks like he has just returned. I suggest contacting him directly if
he does nto respond to these postings.
On Sat, 24 Jan 2009, Sebastian Fischmeister wrote:
Hello,
A comment in engine.c states: "/* don't draw anything; this could be made
less crude :) */". The following patch makes it less crude: If the device
doesn't support clipping and the text doesn't fit into the area, then remove
one character after another from the text until either the text fits or the
string is empty.
I attached the patch—it's not indented correctly to keep the patch size
small—and a test script, so you can give it a try. I don't know the R core
very well, so this change may need some discussion. Yet it works for my
figures.
Have fun,
Sebastian
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