On Tue, 21 Jun 2011, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 11-06-21 8:15 AM, Bingzhang Chen wrote:
Prof. Ripley,
Thanks. A stupid question: how to find out the codes (e.g.,u03bc) for the
Greek
letters?
That's a Unicode code point, so you can look it up online, e.g. here:
http://inamidst.com/stuff/unidata/
The mu is in the "Greek and Coptic" section. Not all R graphics devices have
access to the same fonts, so experiment a bit before you make a choice.
My preferred source is
http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/index.html#links
People on Windows can also use the character map (select e.g. MS Arial
Unicode). With Rgui you can as you say copy-and-paste, but not with
Rterm -- but the character map does display the Unicode point.
(Because you did not give your platform I had to give the most general
solution.)
Duncan Murdoch
I am trying to italicize the mu in a mathematical expression placed as a
label
for an axis of a graph (but other letters remain plain). I am working on
the
Windows platform. I seem to find out a solution: to copy the µ from the
character map and use italic(µ) in the expression.
Bingzhang
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主 题： Re: [R] Italicize Greek symbols in axis
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011, Bingzhang Chen wrote:
Hello there,
Is there any way to italicize Greek symbols such as mu in axis? From the
help
files of mathematical anotations: "Note that bold, italic and bolditalic
do
not
apply to symbols, and hence not to the Greek symbols such as mu which are
displayed in the symbol font. They also do not apply to numeric
constants.",
it
seems that it cannot be done.
That refers to the mathematical symbol mu and not the Greek letter mu (it
is not
clear what you are actually quoting: maybe because in ?plotmath 'symbols'
is
emphasized). And ?plotmath goes on to say
This can often be used to display Greek \emph{letters} in bold or
italic.
Did you try that? So see if "\u03bc" works, e.g.
plot(1:10)
text(5, 2, "\u03bc", font = 3)
On most devices there is no italic symbol font, and even if it were
available,
it is not included in the R graphics model of fonts 1:5. If you do have
such a
font family, you should be able to set it up as the 'family' argument of
your
(unspecified) graphics device.
Note that there is no italic version of the Adobe symbol font in the
standard
implementation of PDF nor postscript nor X11 nor in the Windows font set
(and
hence as far as I aware neither in the Apple version of those TrueType
fonts).
Some devices, e.g. those using cairographics, may synthesize an italic
symbol
font from glyphs in non-symbol fonts.
Please do remember to include the 'at a minimum' information requested in
the
posting guide: much better answers to questions like this can be given if
you
specify the platform and graphics device you use.
Thanks,
Bingzhang Chen
-- Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk
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University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self)
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