Paul Smith wrote: > On 9/28/07, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I know how to export graphics as pdf files and then how to include >>> them in LaTeX documents. However, I do not know how to do in order to >>> have the text of the graphics written with the font selected for the >>> LaTeX document. Is that possible? >> Well, it depends on what that font is. But if it is TeX font, >> see the section called 'TeX fonts' in ?postscript and the detailed >> description in the article in R-news 6/2 by Paul Murrell and myself. >> >> If it is an Adobe Type1 font such as Times New Roman, just specify an >> appropriate family in the pdf() call. >> >> Dietrich Trenkler wrote: >> >>> maybe you will find the psfrag package useful. >> I doubt it will be even usable with PDF (there are pdfrack and Xfigfrag, >> though), and with postscript it is at best a kludge as R does its own >> micro-positioning of text based on the font metrics. > > Thanks to both. PSTricks > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSTricks > > draws figures that, when inserted in a LaTeX document, their font > matches the one selected for the LaTeX document. If I may, I would > like to submit to your consideration the suggestion of implementing > the exportation of R graphics to PSTricks. > > Paul
See http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/PsFrag for a way to semi-automate the process. Frank -- Frank E Harrell Jr Professor and Chair School of Medicine Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
