On Aug 19, 2010, at 1:04 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, peter dalgaard wrote: > >> >> On Aug 19, 2010, at 9:15 AM, Jari Oksanen wrote: >> >> >>> >>> The X11(type = 'cairo') shows the problem with example(points); >>> TestChars(font=5). However, there is no problem with the default device >>> (quartz), nor with the default X11() which has type = 'Xlib' (unlike >>> documented in ?X11: 'cairo' is available but 'Xlib' still used). >>> >>> What ever this is worth of (if this is worthless, I'll surely hear about >>> it). >> >> Well, maybe not worthless, but the X11 setup on Mac is poor in general. >> type="Xlib" appears plainly not to work, and even disregarding the pi issue, >> the rotated y-axis labels come out pretty ugly. This is why quartz is now >> the default on OSX. > > The even more serious issue under cairo of confusing style and weight is > discussed on ?X11. > >> BTW, it seems that the standard X11 "Symbol","Regular" font is simply absent >> on OSX. I can't get fc-match to list it, anyway. > > R's X11(type='cairo') device is using a version of cairographics compiled by > Simon which includes a static build of fontconfig. So it is not really > 'OSX'! I'm guessing you are using /usr/local/bin/fc-match which AFAIK also > Simon's.
Actually, it was /opt/local/bin/fc-match (macPorts?). I have _three_ of them: peter-dalgaards-iMac:~ pd$ ls -l /usr/X11/bin/fc-match -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 64416 Feb 11 2010 /usr/X11/bin/fc-match peter-dalgaards-iMac:~ pd$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/fc-match -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 root wheel 1476560 Oct 21 2008 /usr/local/bin/fc-match peter-dalgaards-iMac:~ pd$ ls -l /opt/local/bin/fc-match -rwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 14792 Mar 16 16:52 /opt/local/bin/fc-match Doesn't look like they are behaving any different, though. > It is also not using pango, and so not selecting fonts the same way as on > Linux. You're assuming (in fact, correctly) that I was using Simon's build, but my locally built version is similar. That doesn't appear to use pango either; I have a Portfile for pango-devel, but it must have failed to build. -- Peter Dalgaard Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
