> Simone Giannerini
> on Sun, 24 Sep 2023 16:57:00 +0200 writes:
> Thank you for your comment, On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at
> 9:51 PM Ben Bolker wrote:
>>
>> This is certainly worth discussing, but there's always a
>> heavy burden of back-compatibility; how much bette
> Hervé Pagès
> on Sat, 23 Sep 2023 16:52:21 -0700 writes:
> Hi Martin,
> On 9/23/23 06:43, Martin Maechler wrote:
>>> Hervé Pagès
>>> on Fri, 22 Sep 2023 16:55:05 -0700 writes:
>> > The problem is that you have things that are
>> > **semantically** dif
Some of you may remember posts and/or e-mails about this topic
many months ago..
"Atomic vector" is a very well defined term for somewhat advanced
R users. E.g., from 'The R Language Manual' (in the development
version; i.e. made from latest R source code):
https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manua
On 9/25/23 07:05, Martin Maechler wrote:
>> Hervé Pagès
>> on Sat, 23 Sep 2023 16:52:21 -0700 writes:
> > Hi Martin,
> > On 9/23/23 06:43, Martin Maechler wrote:
> >>> Hervé Pagès
> >>> on Fri, 22 Sep 2023 16:55:05 -0700 writes:
> >> > The problem is
I've mentioned in previous messages that I'm trying to redo rgl text.
Part of what I need is to measure the size of strings in pixels when
they are drawn by base graphics.
It appears that
strwidth(texts, "user", cex = cex, font = font, family = family)
gives accurate measurements of the wi
Hi
strheight(), which is based GEStrHeight(), is pretty crude, not only
ignoring descenders, but also only considering the ascent of the overall
font (capital "M").
There is a GEStrMetric(), which returns character-specific ascent and
descent, but that is only currently exposed via grid::str
Hi
Yes, you can set up your own font and TeX installations are a good
source of Type 1 fonts. Here is an example (paths obviously specific to
my [Ubuntu 20.04] OS and TeX installation) ...
cmlgc <- Type1Font("cmlgc",
rep("/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/afm/public/cm-lgc/fcmr6z.afm", 4
