Re: [Rd] One possible cause for incorrect symbols in X11() output

2010-08-19 Thread peter dalgaard
On Aug 19, 2010, at 1:55 PM, peter dalgaard wrote: >> >> It is also not using pango, and so not selecting fonts the same way as on >> Linux. > > You're assuming (in fact, correctly) that I was using Simon's build, but my > locally built version is similar. That doesn't appear to use pango eit

Re: [Rd] One possible cause for incorrect symbols in X11() output

2010-08-19 Thread peter dalgaard
On Aug 19, 2010, at 1:04 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, peter dalgaard wrote: > >> >> On Aug 19, 2010, at 9:15 AM, Jari Oksanen wrote: >> >> >>> >>> The X11(type = 'cairo') shows the problem with example(points); >>> TestChars(font=5). However, there is no problem with t

Re: [Rd] One possible cause for incorrect symbols in X11() output

2010-08-19 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 12:36 +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > If you have more than one element in a fonts.conf file you need to > group them, e.g. Many thanks, Prof. Ripley. That is working just fine now on my Fedora 12 workstation. All the best, G > > > >Symbol > > Standard S

Re: [Rd] One possible cause for incorrect symbols in X11() output

2010-08-19 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
If you have more than one element in a fonts.conf file you need to group them, e.g. Symbol Standard Symbols L ZapfDingbats Dingbats On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, Gavin Simpson wrote: On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 07:55 +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: There have been spasmodi

Re: [Rd] One possible cause for incorrect symbols in X11() output

2010-08-19 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 07:55 +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > There have been spasmodic reports of symbols such as pi and infinity > in plotmath being reproduced incorrectly on the X11 device on some > Linux systems (at least Ubuntu 10 and Fedora 12/13), and we've managed > to track down one cau

Re: [Rd] One possible cause for incorrect symbols in X11() output

2010-08-19 Thread Jari Oksanen
On 19/08/10 14:04 PM, "Prof Brian Ripley" wrote: OSX. I can't get fc-match to list it, anyway. > > R's X11(type='cairo') device is using a version of cairographics > compiled by Simon which includes a static build of fontconfig. So it > is not really 'OSX'! I'm guessing you are using > /usr/lo

Re: [Rd] One possible cause for incorrect symbols in X11() output

2010-08-19 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, peter dalgaard wrote: On Aug 19, 2010, at 9:15 AM, Jari Oksanen wrote: The X11(type = 'cairo') shows the problem with example(points); TestChars(font=5). However, there is no problem with the default device (quartz), nor with the default X11() which has type = 'Xlib' (u

Re: [Rd] One possible cause for incorrect symbols in X11() output

2010-08-19 Thread peter dalgaard
On Aug 19, 2010, at 9:15 AM, Jari Oksanen wrote: > > The X11(type = 'cairo') shows the problem with example(points); > TestChars(font=5). However, there is no problem with the default device > (quartz), nor with the default X11() which has type = 'Xlib' (unlike > documented in ?X11: 'cairo' is

Re: [Rd] One possible cause for incorrect symbols in X11() output

2010-08-19 Thread Jari Oksanen
On 19/08/10 09:55 AM, "Prof Brian Ripley" wrote: > There have been spasmodic reports of symbols such as pi and infinity > in plotmath being reproduced incorrectly on the X11 device on some > Linux systems (at least Ubuntu 10 and Fedora 12/13), and we've managed > to track down one cause whilst in

[Rd] One possible cause for incorrect symbols in X11() output

2010-08-18 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
There have been spasmodic reports of symbols such as pi and infinity in plotmath being reproduced incorrectly on the X11 device on some Linux systems (at least Ubuntu 10 and Fedora 12/13), and we've managed to track down one cause whilst investigating PR#14355. Some systems have Wine and hence