On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Mark Difford wrote:
Hi Roland,
But this is obviously not a dagger and it seems the Adobe Symbol font
does not have a dagger.
True, but ... Yoda was here.
plot(0:1,0:1, type="n")
text(x=0.5, y=0.5, labels=expression("\u2020"))
text(x=0.4, y=0.6, labels=expression("\u2021"))
?plotmath, sub "Other symbols" ... "Any Unicode character can be...."
Regards, Mark.
PS: Works under Windows Vista, but ...
That would be expected to work
(in a UTF-8 locale || on Windows)
&& on a device with Unicode support
&& in a font that has the glyph.
(it works on Windows because we fake much of a UTF-8 locale there).
There is an alternative: dagger _is_ in the standard Adobe character
set, so this will work as something \206 (untested) in 8-bit Windows
character sets on windows(), postscript(), pdf() ... devices
As ever, the information asked for in the posting guide helps us give
a better answer.
Rau, Roland wrote:
Dear all,
I would like to plot the dagger symbol in R (like LaTeX's \dagger).
However, I was unable to do so.
First, I thought maybe dagger actually exists just like the degree
symbol:
plot(0:1,0:1, type="n")
text(x=0.5, y=0.5, labels=expression(degree))
plot(0:1,0:1, type="n")
text(x=0.5, y=0.5, labels=expression(dagger))
However, this was not very successful. New hope emerged that I will
succeed when I read the help page (as so often) for ?plotmath.
There I discovered the 'symbol' thing and read that the Adobe Symbol
font encodings are used. The closest thing I could fine, though, was:
plot(0:1,0:1, type="n")
text(x=0.5, y=0.5, labels=expression(symbol("\247")))
But this is obviously not a dagger and it seems the Adobe Symbol font
does not have a dagger.
But the Adobe Standard encoding does.
We also know this :-D
library(fortunes)
fortune("Yoda")
So maybe someone can give me some advice?
Thanks in advance,
Roland
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