David You missed the point -- the issue was not the spacing between WORDS. It was the spacing between LETTERS (as noted in the original email) Other suggestions would be helpful.
Dennis Dennis Fisher MD P < (The "P Less Than" Company) Phone: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784) Fax: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784) www.PLessThan.com On May 15, 2012, at 12:01 PM, David Winsemius wrote: > > On May 15, 2012, at 2:39 PM, Dennis Fisher wrote: > >> R 2.14.0 >> OS X and Windows >> >> Colleagues >> >> I am trying to add some italicized text to a graphic using the code that >> appears below. >> For the italic text, kerning is not ideal -- spacing between letters is >> larger than I expected. >> Is there a simple solution to this? > > Use fewer tildes? > > >> >> Dennis >> >> plot(1, type="n", axes=F, xlab="", ylab="") >> mtext(side=3, line=-0, "Some Text") >> mtext(side=3, line=-1, expression(italic(Some) ~~ Text)) >> mtext(side=3, line=-2, expression(italic(Some) ~~ italic(Text))) >> >> >> >> Dennis Fisher MD >> P < (The "P Less Than" Company) > > -- > > David Winsemius, MD > West Hartford, CT > ______________________________________________ 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.
