HI, Have you tried italic()? legend(expression(italic("Study area")).
It is untested as I am not in front of my linux system. A.K. legend(expression(italic("Expression species") ----- Original Message ----- From: Vikram Chhatre <crypticline...@gmail.com> To: r-help@r-project.org Cc: Sent: Thursday, June 7, 2012 8:27 PM Subject: [R] changing font to italic for one entry in legend() Hello, I need to change the font for one of the items (C. elegans) in my legend to italic. Can someone suggest how to accomplish this? legend('bottomright', bty='n', c('C. elegans range', 'Study area'), cex=0.8, fill=c('light gray', 'white'), border=c('black','black')) I tried using lab.font=c(1,3) but R ignored and did not write the legend at all. Any advice would be great. Thanks. V ______________________________________________ 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.