> On Jan 30, 2016, at 3:24 PM, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4...@gmail.com> wrote: > > (Ill give it a try, but more expertise than I have may be needed) > > Works fine for me (on OS X). > > Take a look at ?pdf . I believe the font family in use (Helvetica is > the default) needs to have the (Adobe) symbol font as font 5. What > family are you using? > > To see what families are available, use: > > names(grDevices::pdfFonts())
That's not very informative, since the actual fonts that are going to be used are inside the 'serif', "sans", and "mono" families. Try this instead: > pdfFonts()$serif$metrics [1] "Times-Roman.afm" "Times-Bold.afm" "Times-Italic.afm" [4] "Times-BoldItalic.afm" "Symbol.afm" > pdfFonts()$mono$metrics [1] "Courier.afm" "Courier-Bold.afm" [3] "Courier-Oblique.afm" "Courier-BoldOblique.afm" [5] "Symbol.afm" Notice the the fifth item in both is Symbol. Which may also not be very useful either since for reasons that I have never been able to fathom, the fonts sometimes get messed up on a Mac and the way to detect and correct the problem is to use Font Book.app which I think you will find in either ~/Applications or ~/Applications/Utilities. The symptom: ... you find a font type in Font Book that has duplicate entries. Delete the corrupted one and you may find your Symbols will reappear. (This is documented in ?quartz.) > Another possibility is that you are using the wrong encoding. > Unfortunately, this is beyond my ability to help you with, but perhaps > reading the Help on the encoding argument and related links might get > you the necessary info. > > Cheers, > Bert > > Bert Gunter > > "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along > and sticking things into it." > -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) > > > On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 1:43 PM, Jorge Fernández García > <jorfeg...@hotmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> I have a problem displaying greek (and in general any special character). >> >> >> I know I am using the right command as the same script works in Fedora20 but >> not in MAC Yosemite. >> >> >> ylab=expression(delta) displays a square instead of the right symbol when I >> view the resulting pdf file with preview or any other tool to display pdf. A full test would be: pdf(); plot(1,1, main=expression(delta)); dev.off() -- David. >> >> >> Any idea of what's going on? >> >> >> Thanks in advance >> >> >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. David Winsemius Alameda, CA, USA ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
