Hi, Another option would be the tikzDevice package, which lets you process all the text of your plot with LaTeX. I think the XeTeX variant might be the most straight-forward to mix different fonts using this approach.
HTH, baptiste On 29 June 2010 16:17, Jinsong Zhao <jsz...@mail.hzau.edu.cn> wrote: > Hi there, > > I am a Chinese R user. I hope to display Chinese character in a plot, > and than save it in PostScript format. I have read the article titled > "Non-Standard Fonts in PostScript and PDF Graphics", especially the > section about CJK fonts. I also tried the code: > >> pdf("chinese.pdf", width=3, height=1) >> grid.text("\u4F60\u597D", y=2/3, gp=gpar(fontfamily="CNS1")) >> grid.text("is 'hello' in (Traditional) Chinese", y=1/3) >> dev.off() > > however, it's not valid with postscript(). It seems that postscript() > need to set family in postscirpt(..., family = "CNS1"). Then all the > characters are in CJK font, and it's not what I hope to get. I hope the > Latin character is displayed in Helvetica. > > Any suggestions? Thanks in advance! > > Regards, > Jinsong > -- > Jinsong Zhao, Ph.D. > College of Resources and Environment > Huazhong Agricultural University > Wuhan 430070, P.R. China > E-mail: jsz...@mail.hzau.edu.cn > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.