Hi there,
I have searched the google, however, I don't find anything that related
with fallback font in R.
I also try to read the source code of R, however, I am not familiar with
C and the algorithm about font specific in text/plot.
Thus, I try to specify different fonts for Latin and non-latin
characters. I try to use expression():
plot(1:10, xlab = "")
mtext(expression(phantom(Hello)*\u4F60\u597D), side = 1, family = "SimSun")
mtext(expression(Hello*phantom(\u4F60\u597D), side = 1, family = "serif")
However, "Hello" in Simsun has a different strwidth with that in serif.
Thus, there are more space between Hello and \u4F60\u597D than it should be.
The other way is to merge a Latin font, such as Times New Roman with a
non Latin font, such as SimSun. There are several fontforge scripts for
the purpose. However, there will cause fontforge core dump. I don't have
chance to test it.
Will the R core team or someone response to it, if I filed a wishlist in
R bugzilla?
Best,
Jinsong
On 2017/3/23 22:24, Jinsong Zhao wrote:
Hi there,
I am a Chinese R user. I hope to plot the following code with Chinese in
one font family, such as SimHei, but English in another font family,
such as Times New Roman.
plot(1:10, type = "n", xlab = "Hello \u4F60\u597D", family = "serif")
In my case, the system default font is "SimSun", so the above code
fallback "\u4F60\u597D", which is not in the font Times, to SimSun.
If I use:
plot(1:10, type = "n", xlab = "Hello \u4F60\u597D", family = "SimHei")
Then The "Hello" will in "SimHei" family, it's not as beautiful as Times.
Is it possible to specify the fallback font family in R? Any hints or
suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
Best,
Jinsong
version
_
platform x86_64-w64-mingw32
arch x86_64
os mingw32
system x86_64, mingw32
status
major 3
minor 3.3
year 2017
month 03
day 06
svn rev 72310
language R
version.string R version 3.3.3 (2017-03-06)
nickname Another Canoe
Sys.getlocale()
[1] "LC_COLLATE=Chinese (Simplified)_China.936;LC_CTYPE=Chinese
(Simplified)_China.936;LC_MONETARY=Chinese
(Simplified)_China.936;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=Chinese (Simplified)_China.936
______________________________________________
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.
