Re: [R] Kerning of italic text in plotmath

2012-05-15 Thread David Winsemius
On May 15, 2012, at 3:23 PM, Fisher Dennis wrote: David You missed the point -- the issue was not the spacing between WORDS. Or perhaps the point was obscured by your extraneous code. It was the spacing between LETTERS (as noted in the original email) Other suggestions would be helpful.

Re: [R] Kerning of italic text in plotmath

2012-05-15 Thread Bert Gunter
I believe that this depends on the font in use and the graphics engine doing the rendering, which I believe may depend on the OS. You supplied none of this information -- it _is_ asked for in the posting guide -- but you might try changing your fonts,font size, and/or graphics device to see whethe

Re: [R] Kerning of italic text in plotmath

2012-05-15 Thread baptiste auguie
For better typography, try tikzDevice, it uses LaTeX to render the text. b. On 16 May 2012 07:23, Fisher Dennis wrote: > David > > You missed the point -- the issue was not the spacing between WORDS.  It was > the spacing between LETTERS (as noted in the original email) > Other suggestions woul

Re: [R] Kerning of italic text in plotmath

2012-05-15 Thread Fisher Dennis
David You missed the point -- the issue was not the spacing between WORDS. It was the spacing between LETTERS (as noted in the original email) Other suggestions would be helpful. Dennis Dennis Fisher MD P < (The "P Less Than" Company) Phone: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784) Fax: 1-866-PLessTha

Re: [R] Kerning of italic text in plotmath

2012-05-15 Thread David Winsemius
On May 15, 2012, at 2:39 PM, Dennis Fisher wrote: R 2.14.0 OS X and Windows Colleagues I am trying to add some italicized text to a graphic using the code that appears below. For the italic text, kerning is not ideal -- spacing between letters is larger than I expected. Is there a simple

[R] Kerning of italic text in plotmath

2012-05-15 Thread Dennis Fisher
R 2.14.0 OS X and Windows Colleagues I am trying to add some italicized text to a graphic using the code that appears below. For the italic text, kerning is not ideal -- spacing between letters is larger than I expected. Is there a simple solution to this? Dennis plot(1, type="n", axes=F,