Le lundi 30 mars 2020 à 15:24 +1300, Paul Murrell a écrit : > Hi > > I have created an R branch that contains a potential fix ... > > https://svn.r-project.org/R/branches/R-symfam/ > > This allows, for example, ... > > cairo_pdf(symbolfamily="OpenSymbol") > > ... to specify that the OpenSymbol family should be used as the > "symbol" font (e.g., for "plotmath") in R.
Thanks for looking at it! But, really, there is no such thing as a Symbol font on Linux anymore. Symbol is pre-unicode thinking. Most modern general-purpose unicode fonts will include every codepoint Symbol ever shipped, and fontconfig will fallback gracefully when that’s not the case (unless your fontconfig integration is broken). Just use the sans-serif or monospace fontconfig defaults. You don’t need Symbol, or OpenSymbol, or any special font setup. Symbol’s codepoint coverage is laughable by 2020’s UTF-8 standards. Symbol << Normal Unicode font (DejaVu*) << Special math fonts (STIX2) I you do advanced math stuff, you may need a special math font like STIX, but that’s lights years more advanced than Symbol, and a general purpose font like DejaVu has been shipping a MATH block for several years now Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
