On May 15, 2012, at 3:23 PM, Fisher Dennis wrote:
David
You missed the point -- the issue was not the spacing between WORDS.
Or perhaps the point was obscured by your extraneous code.
It was the spacing between LETTERS (as noted in the original email)
Other suggestions would be helpful.
Kerning is not determined by plotmath parameters, but by the font
construction. Install a different font that behaves in the manner you
desire:
?plotmath
?pdfFonts
?quartzFonts
> quartzFonts("serif")
$serif
[1] "Times-Roman" "Times-Bold" "Times-Italic" "Times-
BoldItalic"
> quartzFonts("sans")
$sans
[1] "Helvetica" "Helvetica-Bold" "Helvetica-Oblique"
[4] "Helvetica-BoldOblique"
You do know how to use FontBook.app? It looks like HelveticaNeue-
LightItalic has tighter kerning than Helvetic-Oblique.
... or edit the one that is on your device:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=editing+fonts+mac
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Dennis
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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)
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West Hartford, CT
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West Hartford, CT
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